Whiplash Researcher | Clinical Specialist in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy | PhD
Calgary CANADA
Joined February 2014
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BPS President, Roger Knaggs, commented on a recent study about prescribing gabapentinoids. Read more here: medscape.co.uk/viewarticle/s…
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Physical activity should be the primary intervention for individuals living with chronic pain A position paper from the European Pain Federation (EFIC) 'On the Move' Task Force
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Pain within a biopsychosocial framework - we had challenges finding significant research on the social context of pain in chronic WAD, so we investigated it ourselves :) This is open access for those interested degruyter.com/document/doi/1…
This was a fun introductory SCED trial with some great clinicians to see if rehab influenced outcomes after an intervention for chronic WAD...lots of problems with adherence we found out. Interventions safe. Good preliminary data to build upon tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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And for those who prefer blog summaries: vivocura.ca/blog/platelet-ri… @G_Schneider22
Our updated longer term data on #PRP (+/- adjunct PT) in #ChronicWhiplash Only a case series, and requires validation in a controlled trial, but appears to be an option for some at least
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Here is one option for post-grad PTs in Canada to expand their knowledge and clinical reasoning in orthopaedic physiotherapy.
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PhD scholarship opportunity in #sensorytraining for #persistentpain supervised by myself, Prof. Lorimer Moseley and co. in Adelaide (must be Australian/New Zealand resident). Please share - applications close November 6!
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This appears to be a wonderful initiative (in Australia) for those with fear or anxiety with driving
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Primary MSK pain vs nociplastic pain vs myofascial pain syndrome - a review of the possibilities and overlappping mechanisms journals.lww.com/painrpts/Fu…
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And a contrary view highlighting the conflation of terms involving taxonomy, a clinical descriptor and a clinical syndrome: journals.lww.com/painrpts/Fu…
"Chronic back pain is more heritable than acute back pain"
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Task-related fear as compared to kinesiophobia is associated with changes in lumbar spine kinematics during flexion
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Stratifying care for LBP based on clinical pain phenotypes - an upcoming trial comparing duloxetine vs ACT vs manual therapy vs self-mgt
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"acute stress disrupts connectivity underlying top-down emotion regulation of the threat response" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3454…
Objective demonstration of the association between neck pain and sleep disturbance in chronic neck pain: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3504…, supporting our recent self-report measures investigating sleep, pain and psychological measures pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3603…
It does not appear that gut microbiome changes are associated with pain in people with fibromyalgia pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3614…
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Put the needle down! 💉
Those who have steroid injections for shoulder pain are more than 7 times likely to have a rotator cuff tear compared to those who do not have injections! 🤔
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