Emily Walker

Exercise Physiologist | PhD Candidate at UNSW and NeuRA

[IASP @IASPpain]

@emwalker_exphys et al. argue that equitable pain care requires integrating awareness of social conditions and structural inequities with clinician reflection and coordinated action across healthcare, communities, and policy. Learn more in #PainReports https://t.co/I9B7uomufR

[PAIN Reports @PainReportsOPEN]

@emwalker_exphys et al. argue that equitable pain care requires integrating awareness of social conditions and structural inequities with clinician reflection and coordinated action across healthcare, communities, and policy. Learn more in #PainReports https://t.co/cdr8FtqKnr

[Centre for Pain IMPACT @PainIMPACTNeuRA]

The social determinants of health shape people’s pain experiences, management and outcomes.
A recent article led by @emwalker_exphys calls for coordinated action to advance equitable pain care, by focusing on what clinicians can do in practice ✅
https://t.co/ucxKX8Xx8t

[Emily Walker @emwalker_exphys]

Excited to share this clinical update for the International Association of the Study of Pain’s 2025 Global Year 🌏

[Mitch Gibbs, PhD @MitchTGibbs]

Well done @emwalker_exphys for leading this 👏 https://t.co/nUahzEHVl0

[Centre for Pain IMPACT @PainIMPACTNeuRA]

📣How does pain self-efficacy, kinesiophobia and health-related QOL mediate pain and disability improvements with goal setting and education in people with chronic low back pain?

Read a recently published mediation analysis
here 👉 https://t.co/v78IWIWhSc

@emwalker_exphys

[Emily Walker @emwalker_exphys]

Publication alert 🚨

Pain self-efficacy, kinesiophobia & health-related QoL = key mechanisms explaining how goal setting + pain education improved outcomes.

How to target? 👉build confidence, reframe threat & support re-engagement in valued activities
https://t.co/pnO3em6Eh7

[Emily Walker @emwalker_exphys]

One-Page Patient Fact Sheets for Low Back Pain in Primary Care https://t.co/s9etg4VED9

[Emily Walker @emwalker_exphys]

It’s been great to share my thoughts and research on here, however I will be leaving X to move over to BlueSky 🦋

You can follow me here: @emwalkerexphys.bsky.social

[Emily Walker @emwalker_exphys]

-“I empower the patient” – How do you do that? The only ability you have is to create the conditions for the patient to empower themself

[Emily Walker @emwalker_exphys]

A fantastic conversation with @ProfBrendan and Prof Inger Ekman on person-centred care

https://t.co/Ixl2SufXpR

[Emily Walker @emwalker_exphys]

-We don’t need more time to do person-centred care. It’s how we look at it in the whole context, it is more efficient, it removes unnecessary and repetitive work we get stuck because we see it as an additional thing we do rather than just changing what we are doing

[Emily Walker @emwalker_exphys]

-Rehab means returning to previous state. What if you don’t want to return to that? What if you want to be completely different?
-Reframing “What are your goals” to “What would you like to do or who would you like to be”?

[Emily Walker @emwalker_exphys]

"Listen to me, learn from me & hear what I am telling you, it makes me feel that my concerns have been understood"
"Provide a holistic approach to my care that is tailored & looks after my physical,mental,occupational,social,spiritual & intellectual needs"
https://t.co/aTU0xfC85w

[Emily Walker @emwalker_exphys]

"I have found my voice. My suffering is given voice and is understood. I had time to tell my story. I wasn’t held back by fear of being judged. People listen to me, hear me, and see me. I am validated, believed, and taken seriously."

[Emily Walker @emwalker_exphys]

4 of the themes describe what it means to live with chronic pain & 6 of the themes describe what it means to be on a healing journey with pain.

"A Healing Journey with Chronic Pain: A Meta-Ethnography Synthesizing 195 Qualitative Studies"
https://t.co/yIO8KwleSc

[Emily Walker @emwalker_exphys]

"I have made sense of my pain. My pain is real. I now understand my pain better. My pain no longer frightens me. It is no longer threatening. I am less afraid & anxious. I feel that I can manage. I have some control back. I understand my body & pain & am starting a new journey."

[Emily Walker @emwalker_exphys]

Information provided was experienced as confronting, conflicting with deeply held beliefs

Accepting theory & applying learning in practice required reinforcements from multiple actors (family/media/public/health professionals)

@rodrizzo_pain new paper!
https://t.co/mHvcs98JrH

[Emily Walker @emwalker_exphys]

"System (e.g. biomedical orientation), organisational (e.g. key performance indicators) and professional (e.g. identity as expert) factors compete with person-centred rehabilitation."

Great work by @nickayes4

https://t.co/8fnnJa1DQG

[Emily Walker @emwalker_exphys]

Newly released by @nathaliaccosta1 🌟

If there’s one paper to catch you up on the current challenges with clinical practice, patient care and the healthcare system - this is it 💯

https://t.co/Bn5ItA2cpO

[Emily Walker @emwalker_exphys]

When a patient receives a treatment for a MSK pain condition, the total treatment effect encompasses the specific effect of the treatment, contextual effects, and non-specific effects

https://t.co/J7T6wbTMVC