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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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A good friend of NOI, Yannick Barde-Cabusson, has previously translated our DIM SIM NOI Note into French – Les DIMs et les SIMs. Yannick has…
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…
A quiet revolution in pain understanding and treatment is happening in some parts of the world. Along with locals and other visitors, I have just…
Nice article from the Society for Teaching of Psychology: Four simple strategies from cognitive psychology for the classroom Scientists focusing on educational research questions have…
Thankfully, I’m on the other side of my first episode of acute low back pain, just like the majority of the general population. But I got…
My usual morning routine includes a scan of various media to check if anything blog-worthy has popped up – social media, RSS feeds and email…
It’s a bloody awful choice of headline from CBC… Why pain education is linked to B.C’.s fentanyl crisis I read this and immediately thought that the…
Karen Litzy who always does a great podcast, scored an exclusive interview with David Butler while he was over in the USA, presenting EP3 with…
Our best year yet By every measure, 2016 has been our best year yet on noijam – more posts, more authors, more views, more comments…
Illustration by Hanna Barczyk Treating pain can be emotionally burdensome. Think about the last time a patient left the clinic and you lent back on…