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  • Health Equity
  • Chronic Pain Management
  • LGBTQIA+ Health

Background:

  • LGBTQIA+ individuals experience chronic pain and disability at twice the rate of cisgender, endosex, and heterosexual individuals.
  • Disparities are driven by minority stress, healthcare discrimination, and barriers to affirming care.
  • Current pain models often focus on deficits, potentially increasing stigma and mistrust.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To advocate for a paradigm shift in chronic pain management for LGBTQIA+ individuals.
  • To propose an affirmative, resilience-based framework integrating social determinants and strengths-based principles.
  • To highlight the role of physical therapists in implementing this approach.

Main Methods:

  • This perspective synthesizes evidence from LGBTQIA+ affirming care, trauma-informed practice, and resilience-based approaches.
  • It proposes a conceptual framework for pain management.
  • It outlines the role of physical therapists in operationalizing this framework.

Main Results:

  • The proposed framework integrates recognition of social and structural inequities with strengths-based principles.
  • Key principles include adaptive coping, psychological flexibility, identity affirmation, and community connection.
  • Physical therapists can foster psychological safety, support meaningful movement, and address contextual barriers.

Conclusions:

  • A shift from vulnerability-focused to resilience-centered models is crucial for effective LGBTQIA+ pain care.
  • This approach promotes equity, empowerment, and improved health outcomes.
  • Physical therapists are pivotal in operationalizing this strengths-based, contextually aware pain management strategy.