physiotherapist, interest in persistent pain & empowering self mgt, occ health & voc rehab. love family time & walking our springer spaniel. views my own
‘Listen to me, learn from me" - just imagine if our care of people in pain looked like this list below? What skills do clinicians need to provide this care? file:///Users/211221g/Downloads/_Listen_to_me,_learn_from_me___a_priority_setting.45%20(1).pdf @hels_slater@AndrewMBriggs
Read my latest piece focused on promoting the benefits of being physical active for people with arthritis. Also dispelling some myths! @_ISCP_@Arthritisie
https://t.co/GKFhCs0BTM
We need to dispel the myth of arthritis as a condition of "wear & tear". Low grade inflammation will have both local tissue & systemic effects. One of the reasons why pain & radiographic findings often do not correlates.
https://t.co/XazkCZ9mNP
''Being sedentary is as much a risk factor for death as smoking''
''It is more of a risk factor than hypertension, obesity and high cholesterol. ''
''Being active reduces all cause mortality risk''.
NHS Scotland are delighted to host three FREE online talks about chronic pain, delivered by @FlippinPain.
If you want to find out more about how we think about, talk about and treat chronic pain find out more and sign up here:
https://t.co/MnIJdsDKyf
📢 Patients suffering from chronic pain need validation
This concept study shows that physiotherapists’ validating communication improves even after brief training
Read it here 🔓: https://t.co/mYzkwNoUji
@rtholopainen@PeteOSullivanPT#Physiotherapy#LowBackPain#PatientCare
📢Dates for your diary
Live public seminars for people affected by persistent pain in collaboration with @scotgovhealth & @NHSScotland
🗓️15/2 | 10am GMT | Prof Lorimer Moseley AO
🗓️2/3 | 5pm GMT | Prof Cormac Ryan
🗓️23/3 | 12pm GMT | A/Prof Tasha Stanton
*Booking opens next week
10 DOS & DON'TS OF PERSISTENT PAIN
I recently prepared a media piece on "10 dos & don'ts of persistent pain". From today until the 1st of January I will post a summary of each of the 10 points that I have included.
Some exciting publication news to begin 2022. Two preprints now accepted. First co-authored with @dibbygibby and @MdKirchhoff shows how an embodied perspective on the predictive processing theory can help explain pain. Preprint of accepted version here: https://t.co/o5ziN2VIFU
Coming soon!
A series of @FlippinPain events in collaboration with @ScotGovHealth & @NHSScotland designed for people affected by persistent pain in Scotland
Watch this space for info of 3 webinars from internationally renowned pain experts & people living with persistent pain
What do patients feel is MOST valuable when receiving pain education? 🤔
1️⃣ Emotions, thoughts, experiences influence pain.
2️⃣ Pain is multifactorial experience
3️⃣ Pain can be heightened protective response that can be positively influenced
https://t.co/ls4PBdNahM