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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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A Betteridgian* headline in the Australian edition of The Conversation earlier this week Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it…
Short arcs of a circuit “Life depends upon interlocking circuits of contingency, while consciousness can see only such short arcs of such circuits as human purpose…
David Butler was invited by Arthritis Victoria to give the 2015 Koadlow Public Lecture. The evening was a smashing success with the venue at capacity and…
From The New Yorker Why Adults Are Buying Coloring Books (for Themselves) “Coloring books for adults have been around for decades, but Basford’s success—combined with…
Reported in Nature Neuroscience last week Sex divide seen in mechanism that produces persistent pain “Research showing that male and female mice regulate pain sensitivity…
A previous post discussing placebo and placebo effects generated a bit of interest and some discussion. One of the key players in the literature referenced…
The New York Times piece from last month on memory and pain: Forgetting the Pain of Exercise “Completing a marathon can be exhilarating but also…
One for the diary if you happen to be in Adelaide later this month The Art of Pain “The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, Pain Adelaide and…
During Graded Motor Imagery courses we run an exercise as part of the session on imagined movements that we call ‘taking a virtual walk’. Divided…
Inspiring story of Chad Brown who found therapy and a new lease on life in a surprising way, from Outside magazine. The PTSD River Cure “He’s…