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Start with their story –\u00a0<\/em>Dr Louise Tulloh<\/strong><\/p>\n In 1977, Dr George Engel introduced the medical world to the biopsychosocial model to better understand disease. Expanding upon the reductionist biomedical model of disease that was popular at the time, Engel argued that psychological and social factors influence biological functioning and play a role in health and illness. In the decades since, we have come to further understand that behaviours, thoughts and feelings influence our physical state.<\/p>\n We sport and exercise medicine clinicians sometimes fall into the trap of solely focusing on a patient\u2019s musculoskeletal problem as a source of their pain. But a patient\u2019s problem will not simply be solved by addressing musculoskeletal pathology alone. In 2019, this seems obvious. So why are we still failing to move beyond this reductionist view of treatment?<\/p>\n