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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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Last Sunday there was an interesting opinion piece in the New York Times titled ‘The Conversation Placebo‘. Here is a quick summary. It starts with…
Our colleague and friend, Dr Hayley Leake, discusses pelvic pain in women, its prevalence, and research findings from the Pelvic Pain Impact Questionnaire (PPIQ). When…
Betsan Corkhill, friend of NOI, has kindly written the following blog David has written about the dangers of ‘Explain Pain lite’ on several occasions…
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Fantastic talk from Anil Seth; cogent, accessible and wide ranging. Worth investing the hour to watch it. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRel1JKOEbI&w=560&h=315] Seth is a neuroscientist and clearly…
Fresh off the press and open access (click the title): Distinguishing between nociceptive and neuropathic components in chronic low back pain using behavioural evaluation and…
Paul Bloom is a professor of Psychology at Yale University. He’s obviously not afraid of controversy as in his latest book he is Against Empathy….
My usual morning routine includes a scan of various media to check if anything blog-worthy has popped up – social media, RSS feeds and email…
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