Our 20th anniversary this year is a special milestone for JCOM. It time to reflect on our past performance and future prospects. We pause consider the activities of journal, broad field science communication over 20 years.

BACKGROUND Nonspecific chronic low back pain (CLBP) is a highly prevalent and costly public health problem with few treatment options that provide consistent and greater than modest benefits. Treatment of CLBP is shifting from unimodal to multimodal and multidisciplinary approaches, including biopsychosocially-based complementary and integrative care. Multidisciplinary approaches require unique...

Theories of spoken production differ in the way that activation may spread from one level of processing to the next. Discrete theories posit that only the selected item sends activation to the next level while cascading theories posit that activation may spread from all activated (even unselected) items. This study investigated whether information may cascade from phoneme to articulatory levels...

BACKGROUND The objective of this exploratory study was to identify patient-related predictors of communication preferences in patients with chronic low back pain for various dimensions of patient-physician communication (patient participation and orientation, effective and open communication, emotionally supportive communication, communication about personal circumstances). METHODS Eleven reh...

BACKGROUND Telehealth professionals require advanced communication skills, in part to compensate for lack of visual cues. Teach-Back is a best practice communication technique that has been recommended but not previously evaluated for consumer telehealth. We aimed to implement Teach-Back at a national maternal and child health telephone helpline. We describe the intervention and report telenurs...

Although the human brain may have evolutionarily adapted to face-to-face communication, other modes of communication, e.g., telephone and e-mail, increasingly dominate our modern daily life. This study examined the neural difference between face-to-face communication and other types of communication by simultaneously measuring two brains using a hyperscanning approach. The results showed a sign...