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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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From Edzard Ernst Acupuncture: new meta-analysis suggests it is effective beyond placebo “The discussion whether acupuncture is more than a placebo is as long as…
Interesting read from npr.org last week Pain Really Is All In Your Head And Emotion Controls Intensity “When you whack yourself with a hammer, it…
What a night! After months of planning and countless hours of hard work from the whole team, The Explain Pain Handbook: Protectometer launch went off without…
Watch this, it’s only 8 seconds: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2pAMe_5VeY&w=420&h=315] Now watch it again while you think about this – there’s no motor, no springs, no electric…
Theratube is great stuff, it comes in many colours and strengths and there are many uses when it comes to a bit of graded exercise….
In a long career of teaching and travelling it hasn’t been all whiteboards and powerpoints. One great memory that often emerges when I am thinking…
In keeping with other efforts to raise awareness about CRPS, here’s a great little article from Moseley et al (2013) that represents that rare case of…
From Nature online The top 100 papers The discovery of high-temperature superconductors, the determination of DNA’s double-helix structure, the first observations that the expansion of…
From Adelaidian, The University of Adelaide’s magazine A unique partnership between two of the University of Adelaide’s senior medical researchers is edging closer to finding…
From the Chicago Tribune Local Teen Releases Song and Video for Chronic Pain Awareness The song, written by Danielle Stratton, is about her struggle with…