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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 recent Topical Review in Pain provides an interesting and gentle introduction to notions of Predictive Processing and the ‘Bayesian brain’ by way of medically…
Our thanks to Cody Weisbach for once again contributing to noijam. Cody has written previously about The Notorious TMJ and the comedic process, failing to…
Last week I was invited to have lunch with the staff at a physiotherapy and multidisciplinary clinic in Vancouver –Tall Tree Physiotherapy. While the meatballs…
Stumbled on this quite by accident, but it is a rather nice potted history of some thinking about pain. The History of Biopsychosocial Pain –…
Don’t miss out – early bird prices for NOI’s Auckland courses are ending on the 15th of October 2018 – that’s in just 3 weeks! EXPLAIN…
I saw this photograph in an exhibition in Havana. It’s a class of medical students in the faculty of anatomy in Buenos Aires in 1948….
Novella’s are longish short stories*. We have hijacked the term to describe Explain Pain stories that are more complex than nuggets, and take perhaps five…
Terrific interview with Michael Salter at the Pain Research Forum. A brief bio from the site: Michael Salter, MD, PhD, is chief of research at…
This last post in a series from our friend Professor Sonia Grover steps back a little to think about what makes periods happen, and in…
I have been lucky enough to wander around Pablo Neruda’s house in Valparaiso, Chile. My host gave me “I Explain a Few Things” which is…