Timothy H. Wideman, Ph.D.
Assistant professor, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Emerging researcher CRIR-Constance-Lethbridge Rehabilitation Centre of the CIUSSS COIM
Phone: 514 398-8193
Email: [email protected]
Education
- B.Sc. Physical Therapy, McGill University (Summa Cum Laude), 2003
- Ph.D. Experimental Psychology, McGill University, 2012
- Postdoctoral Fellow (CIHR Bisby), Behavioral Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD and Brigham & Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, 2012-2014
Research interests
Multimodal predictors (psychological factors, physical activities, pain sensitivity) of rehabilitation outcomes following painful musculoskeletal injuries.
Recent publications
Mankovsky-Arnold, T., Wideman, T.H., Larivière, C. & Sullivan, M.J.L. (2014). Measures of spontaneous and movement-evoked pain are associated with disability in patients with whiplash injuries. Journal of Pain, 15(9), 967-975.
Scott, W., Wideman, T.H. & Sullivan, M.J.L. (2014). Clinically meaningful scores on pain catastrophizing before and after multidisciplinary rehabilitation: A prospective study of individuals with subacute pain after whiplash injury. Clinical Journal of Pain, 30(3),183-190.
Slepian, P., Bernier, E., Scott, W., Niederstrasser, N.G., Wideman, T.H. & Sullivan, M.J.L. (2014). Changes in pain catastrophizing following physical therapy for musculoskeletal injury: The influence of depressive and post-traumatic stress symptoms. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 24(1), 22-31.
Wideman, T.H. (2014). Rising to the challenge of pain: Targeting catastrophizing to reduce suffering and facilitate recovery. Physiotherapy Practice, 4(2), 18-23.
Wideman, T.H., Finan, P.H., Edwards, R.R., Quartana, P.J., Buenaver, L.F., Haythornthwaite, J.A., et al. (2014). Increased sensitivity to physical activity among individuals with knee osteoarthritis: Relation to pain outcomes, psychological factors, and responses to quantitative sensory testing. Pain, 155(4), 703-711.
Mankovsky-Arnold, T., Wideman, T.H., Larivière,C. & Sullivan, M.J.L. (2013). TENS attenuates repetition-induced summation of activity-related pain following experimentally induced musclesoreness. Journal of Pain, 14(11), 1416-1424.
Walton, D.M., Wideman, T.H. & Sullivan, M.J.L. (2013). A rasch analysis of the pain catastrophizing scale supports its use as an interval-level measure. Clinical Journal of Pain, 29(6),499-506.
Wideman, T.H., Asmundson, G.G., Smeets, R.J., Zautra, A.J., Simmonds, M.J., Sullivan, M.J.L., et al. (2013). Rethinking the fear avoidance model: toward a multidimensional framework ofpain-related disability. Pain, 154(11), 2262-2265.
Research orientation
Axis 1
Research topic
Research Site
CRIR – Lethbridge-Layton-Mackay Rehabilitation Centre (Constance-Lethbridge Site) of the CIUSSS WCM