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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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In March 2016, we rebuilt the Recognise Apps from the ground up, adding new features and updating them to ensure they continued to work on the latest…
Endless opportunities for clinical reasoning and creative application “There’s always somewhere to go…” We say this all the time during Graded Motor Imagery courses because…
We know visualisation has been used in sports to enhance performance, and now visualisation or explicit motor imagery is also an integral part of chronic…
Tim Beames is NOI UK’s most experienced instructor and co-author of The Graded Motor Imagery Handbook. Tim is also possibly the world’s most experienced GMI…
There are obvious motor changes that pose a problem when treating stroke patients – very limited, or at times, no active active function of a limb. Graded…
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…
From the Chicago Tribune Local Teen Releases Song and Video for Chronic Pain Awareness The song, written by Danielle Stratton, is about her struggle with…
We’ve just released our latest video about GMI onto YouTube. This is in “patient language” and we hope it can be used as an introduction…
Dave opened day two, promising to close off the loop of the pain mechanism model after the sessions on nociceptive inputs to the brain yesterday, with…
If PainAdelaide was the entree, providing a selection of tasty morsels to sample and savour, Explain Pain 3 is definitely the mains, with healthy servings…