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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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Delayed pains post-injury – or latent pain – seem quite common and can be hard to integrate clinically. You can never really be sure that a…
Have you ever used the example of phantom limb pain to explain the idea of a ‘map in your brain’ and ‘brain smudging’? I do…
I saw this photograph in an exhibition in Havana. It’s a class of medical students in the faculty of anatomy in Buenos Aires in 1948….
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Joe Tatta has interviewed David Butler for The Healing Pain Podcast in an episode entitled ‘Explain Pain and the Biopsychosocial Model’. You can check out…
Dear Opioids, How are you? I’ve noticed you’ve been receiving a fair amount of flack lately. I’ve read about your recent crisis with over-prescription,…
I read the news today, oh boy 59,000 deaths from opioids And though their lives were rather short We had to count them all, Now…
Our colleague and friend, Dr Hayley Leake, discusses pelvic pain in women, its prevalence, and research findings from the Pelvic Pain Impact Questionnaire (PPIQ). When…
I have just finished teaching Explain Pain 3 (EP3) seminars in the United States with Lorimer Moseley and Mark Jensen – many thanks for the…
Sometimes I ride my bike to work, and I feel pretty proud of myself. Its only 3km but it’s something. There’s even a little hill….