noijam: nɔɪdʒæm, since 2013
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Noun. Communal music session, crowd, signal interference, tight space
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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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From The Conversation recently: How music can help relieve chronic pain As the 17th-century English playwright William Congreve said: “Music has charms to soothe a…
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Compelling talk from Dr Alex Cahana at a TEDx a few years back [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF_WQK0eWik?rel=0&w=560&h=315] “…Pain is not something that you feel… it is something that…
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Our friend Seamus Barker sent us this post on his recent presentation at an international conference: Translating Pain: Translating Between Science and the Humanities Last…