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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Recently published in Scientific Reports and open access: Phantom limb perception interferes with motor imagery after unilateral upper-limb amputation A potential contributor to impaired motor…
It’s not you, it’s me Novel educational strategies and research always grabs our attention, and a recent paper highlighted by Quartz did just that: Teens do better…
“Persistent pain is measured by means of self-report, the sole reliance on which hampers diagnosis and treatment.” This is the first line of the abstract…
A wide ranging interview with Dr Natasha Curran, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine at University College London Hospitals, and Professor John Wood, a neuroscientist at UCL,…
When a rehab expert has a hip replacement Our good friend, recently retired physical therapist John Barbis, and I have previously written about his total…
Reading through references and reference lists for a previous post, I came across a short (open access) review article from Professor Joseph LeDoux entitled Evolution of…
We found the spot In March 2015, a group of researchers (Segerdahl et al 2015) from the Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of…
I have just read American Pain by John Temple (2015) Lyons Press. This is the true story of the Florida “Pill Mills.” In one six month…
Clever, funny and a nice guy Our friends over at Neuroscience Research Australia are hosting Associate Professor Kevin Vowles for a two day skills building…
The pleasures of work The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, by Alain de Botton is a beautiful little book exploring this facet of life, that in many…