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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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…
Guest writer, Emily Moore, continues her blog on working with non-verbal children in pain: Working with children in pain can be a challenging and disheartening experience….
Guest writer, Emily Moore, on working with non-verbal children in pain: Working with children in pain can be a challenging and disheartening experience. On top of…
Guest writer, Jen Norton, investigates the impact of chronic pain on children’s ability to present at school and to be present at school. Namely: pain-related absenteeism and…
Guest writer, Rebecca Fechner, is exploring chronic pain/persistent pain in children through her PhD: how pain is communicated, modelled, and experienced in schools; the projection…
Paediatric pain researcher and resources developer, Joshua W. Pate, shares with Noigroup a passion for making learning more accessible for all – kids included! Enjoy…
Paediatric pain researcher and resources developer, Joshua W. Pate, shares with Noigroup a passion for making learning more accessible for all – kids included! Enjoy…
I attended a great webinar with Dr Joshua Pate on his research into paediatric pain. The webinar attendees were all fellow pain researchers, many with their own children. It…
Our friend Joshua Pate, together with some colleagues has started a thing, it’s called One Thing, and asks the question ‘What is the one thing…
“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the…