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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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Question 7 of The Explain Pain Assessment (from Explain Pain Supercharged) gets a little more complex so metaphor and some imagery will help us here. Some…
The best Explain Pain messages are memorable, persuasive, easily retrievable and behaviour changing. Repetition is one of the most powerful rhetorical skills but of course…
Let’s talk about Question 6 in The Explain Pain Assessment Eight Great Questions – what is the learner’s current pain literacy? Health literacy is the ability to…
There has been much global interest in the notion of Target Concepts for Explain Pain education, particularly since using them in the recent Pain Revolution bike ride and…
We receive and enjoy regular discussions about Explain Pain strategies at NOI. The most common question relates to plateauing – where a person has improved…
Our friend Cecilie Høgsbro from Nordic Health Institute has very kindly translated our most popular post, DIM SIMs into Danish (also available in French and German). …
I can recall an elderly neurologist presenting an undergraduate lecture in the early ’70s on peripheral nerve problems. I remember it because of a comment…
When I was a boy, and got injured, I didn’t receive too much sympathy. Usually, I was blamed for getting injured in the first place….
Many metaphors can be used to discuss the upregulated nervous system and the over-protective nature of persistent pain. One of these is “Sensitive Sensor Lights”….
Wow, what a response. The first of the eight great Explain Pain Assessment questions visualised was wildly popular – and why not, there is something powerfully captivating…