noijam: nɔɪdʒæm, since 2013
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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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We often receive letters from hard-working clinicians and pain sufferers on their journeys. Recently, we were sent this lovely reflection by a clinician Dianna Howell…
What are you reading? I am reading the final drafts of Lorimer Moseley and my Explain Pain Supercharged. A bit self-indulgent I know! Phew! – this…
Creating a dialogue When celebrities discuss their experiences with a taboo topic in a public arena it can often create a dialogue allowing others to…
The comedic process I love hearing about the process that comedians go though to develop their material. What comes off as spontaneous and surprising is…
Illustration by Hanna Barczyk Treating pain can be emotionally burdensome. Think about the last time a patient left the clinic and you lent back on…
Nice piece in The Atlantic today, The Running Conversation in Your Head. “Language is the hallmark of humanity—it allows us to form deep relationships and complex…
Harrowing and joyful (more of the former than the latter perhaps), TIME’s 100 Most Influential Images of All Time is a hard hitting, emotionally fraught…
I have a slight stutter sometimes. Especially when a bit stressed. It was worse when I was a little boy living in outback Australia. My…
Nocebo Land On a weekly basis, I have to listen to the opening statements of a disheartened new patient recounting the ‘doom & gloom’ that…
I wrote the first version of this over 3 years ago and I still get contacted by health professionals who want to discuss their similar…