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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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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…
Five years ago Lorimer Moseley and David Butler wrote a Critical Review for the Journal of Pain entitled Fifteen Years of Explaining Pain: The Past,…
Published late last year without much fanfare, this paper raises some crucial challenges for the current understanding of, and treatment rationale for, CRPS. Fine-Grained Mapping…
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…
One of life’s great gifts is to have clever, thinking friends who send you interesting things to read and help you curate the daily tsunami…
Remember the Lancet Series? A series of three papers from a big collection of international researchers that caused a stir, questioned current approaches to treatment,…
Interesting paper from Giovanna Colombetti and Eder Zavala from the University of Exeter. Worth reading and reflecting on whether there are parallels of brainocentrism in our…
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…
Scenario one: I presume that many of you have heard the famous story, written up in the British Medical Journal, about the man who jumped…
It’s one of the mantras of NOI and we use it all the time; “Motion is Lotion”. But why do we say this to patients?…