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A new class of rehabilitation professional is now emerging – we can call this person a clinical scientist (or scientific clinician). Here we are referring to a professional at the clinical battlefront who uses reasoning science to integrate the best of modern science to help the patient in front of them. Clinical scientist activity ranges from reading and integrating science in the clinic to active data collection and analysis. This blog is for clinicians in the world of science.
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There are nearly two billion people in the world with an ongoing pain state – we can’t take questions from individual sufferers nor can we provide individual treatment advice but we do have a find a clinician service where you can locate clinicians around the world with Explain Pain education. You may also find reading the clinically orientated stories within noijam helpful.
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As an educational strategy, providing contrasting information is a known and effective way to promote optimal learning in pain physiology. In the often delicate discussion…
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Lorimer Moseley and David Butler sat down last week to discuss the Explain Pain Handbook: Protectometer and answer four common questions about their new book: 1….
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As the sparkle of EP3 2015 gently fades into a warm glow, here’s a supercut of the fun times to help embed the fond memories, or…
We have heard a lot of really good comments about the San Diego Pain Summit. Made me wish I was there. In relation to…