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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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Definitely one to follow and also a nice description of mediation analysis: Understanding how pain education causes changes in pain and disability: Protocol for a causal…
Editorial published a few days ago in the BMJ: Overused, ineffective, and potentially harmful “The most frequent indication for knee arthroscopy is degenerative joint disease…
Earlier this year, an interesting review was published in the open access journal Psychology Research and Behaviour Management. The title of the paper How can…
The close proximity of threat: altered distance perception in the anticipation of pain Great new paper from Abby Tabor et al (with a list of…
Those who miss out: the 16-18 year olds Many people miss out on optimal pain treatment. We have detailed some here, such as males and…
EP3 is over for another year but whether you were there or not, it doesn’t mean the learning has to stop. During the three days each…
Brendon Haslam has been a NOI faculty member for a few years now. He was the driving force behind the development of the Pain, Plasticity…
I am going to hear and see Nana Mouskouri next month. She is 80 and I am excited – top seats too! Here she is…
I was invited to a very special event last week – the launch of the Pelvic Pain Foundation of Australia, a not-for-profit body formed…
“Bioplasticity” is one of those very newish words around. Lorimer Moseley mentioned it in a dispatch from Body in Mind, and we have both used…