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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 link to an interview with Brian Mulligan was posted yesterday over at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy website: Physiotherapy pioneer shoots from the hip…
Buying some time Most people know how hard it is to explain pain to patients especially … well … when they have ongoing pain! The endless touring of different clinicians…
A Betteridgian* headline in the Australian edition of The Conversation earlier this week Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it…
One of our readers sent this in: “We were treating a patient today and talking about pain. She told us she was recently sent a…
A recent episode of the always-good Penn’s Sunday School podcast, was a recording of a speech given by Penn back in April – you can listen…
Short arcs of a circuit “Life depends upon interlocking circuits of contingency, while consciousness can see only such short arcs of such circuits as human purpose…
David Butler was invited by Arthritis Victoria to give the 2015 Koadlow Public Lecture. The evening was a smashing success with the venue at capacity and…
A few weeks ago we posted a short note about The Art of Pain – an exhibition, keynote lecture and panel discussions about the experience and management of…
“What do you mean ‘nerve’, it’s a muscle… mate” The notion of curriculum has become central to nearly everything we do with Explain Pain –…
Our good friend EG likes to make us think, challenge ideas (old and new), look at things from different perspectives, and doesn’t mind ruffling some…