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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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Hannah Kennedy is a Senior Occupational Therapist and Research Officer at the Interdisciplinary Persistent Pain Centre, Gold Coast Health. Hannah’s focus on pain education and…
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Positive Psychology is a relatively new domain in the field of psychology. While Psychology in the 20th century looked at the relief of suffering, positive…
Stumbled on this quite by accident, but it is a rather nice potted history of some thinking about pain. The History of Biopsychosocial Pain –…
The role of a therapist as treating in solely a ‘manual’ or ‘biomedical’ way is becoming a thing of the past. More and more we are…
Betsan Corkhill, friend of NOI, has kindly written the following blog David has written about the dangers of ‘Explain Pain lite’ on several occasions…