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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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Edward Bullmore, author of the excellent The Inflamed Mind writing in The Guardian From depression to dementia, inflammation is medicine’s new frontier “Unlikely as it…
A couple of recent news posts on the Pain Research Forum that caught my eye with their links to the flora and fauna of this…
Not about pain per se, but a beautiful message of hope written by 30 year old Susan to her 17 year old self: A letter…
Let’s dissect the common term/diagnosis ‘degenerative disc disease’. It is a triple alliteration with the three D’s. It also has an internal rhyme based around the…
We recently met Ashleigh in Melbourne during our Explain Pain course. Ashleigh shared her story with us, and we asked if she would like to…
Ru-Rong Ji is one of the big names in the field of research into microglia and pain. Simon Beggs is another of the big names…
I feel very fortunate to have been invited to attend the 2018 NOI EP3 course in Melbourne as a science correspondent. At EP3 it was…
The folklore surrounding intervertebral disc injury has inspired some wildly descriptive and unhelpful language. Slipped disc wins by a mile, but you can also blow…
I attended the Melbourne NOIEP3 course in 2018 with tremendous interest, anticipation and excitement. My PhD is in lower back pain related to lifting. An…
Have you ever used the example of phantom limb pain to explain the idea of a ‘map in your brain’ and ‘brain smudging’? I do…