A new medical illustration I made per request. I wish I could just do those all day. #painscience #neuroskyence #physio 🛟🧪

According to Betteridge's law of headlines, the answer to the titles question is: NO! The study found MICROSCOPIC effect sizes for the contribution of psychological factors in the persistence of shoulder pain! #physio #painscience 🧪🛟 journals.lww.com/clinicalpain...

First phase 3 trial for the novel non-opioid drug Suzetrigine. It’s not placebo controlled and aimed to test the safety profile of the drug. I am not sure wheter this could be considered “well-tolerated” and “generally safe” #physio #painscience #neuroskyence 🧪🛟 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New study finds evidence for neuroinflammation in the periphery of individuals after WHIPLASH. Very well conducted study! Sample size ✅ control group ✅ Sig. findings on MRI ✅ Sig. findings on blood tests ✅ Sig. findings on QST ✅ #physio #neuroskyence #painresearch 🧪🛟

New study finds evidence for neuroinflammation in the periphery of individuals after WHIPLASH. Very well conducted study! Sample size ✅ control group ✅ Sig. findings on MRI ✅ Sig. findings on blood tests ✅ Sig. findings on QST ✅ #physio #painresearch #neuroskyence journals.lww.com/pain/Fulltex...

Striking cases of neuro-immune interactions: Upper pic: Psoriasis vanished from right hand after shoulder dislocation with brachial plexus injury. Bottom pic: Four months later, as nerves began to recover, psoriasis returned. #neuroskyence #painresearch #physio 🧪🛟

New study with combined 7 Tesla MRI imaging and PET scan finds altered structures of nerves and neuroinflammation in migraine patients. Vey robust design that includes a control group and same cases as right/left side dominant migraines as controls. #painresearch #neuroskyence #physio 🧪🛟

FDA approves new pain killer- First non-opioid analgesic in decades targets sodium channels. #painresearch #physio #neuroskyence 🛟🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New imaging technique published in Nature to image inflammation utilizes the protein CD-45 which is used only by white blood cells. Link: Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #painresearch #physio #neuroskyence 🛟🧪

There is no such thing as “STRUCTURAL PAIN” and “non structural pain” etc. The plethora of unpleasant sensory experiences we humans use the word “pain” to describe them, are all the consequences of activation of our specialized appartus of nociception. #painresearch #physio #neuroskyence

It should be obligatory for every med/life sci grad student to learn formal logic & reasoning. Too many published papers are poorly argued and make basic inferential errors. This small change would dramatically improve science #physio #painresearch #neuroskyence 🧪🛟

💥New publication from our lab with some important clinical nuggets. We followed 2 groups of patients with Lumbar Spinal Stenosis and leg pain, who decided to undergo surgery or to “wait and see” A 🧵 journals.lww.com/jaaos/abstra... #physio #painresearch #orthosky 🧪 🛟

Instead of talking about the predatory nature of MDPI journals, can we talk about how UGLY their formatting is? It’s literally hurting my eyes reading their papers online and PDFs 😣 #painresearch 🧪

🤘🏻The study I have been waiting for 30 years! Only Scandinavians can pull this out let alone publish it in a Scandinavian pain journal 🤘🏻 #painscience #physio #painresearch #ignobel2025 www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Finalnd downgraded many MDPI and Frontiers journals in their quality grading. Good call for MDPI. As for Frontiers I am not really sure but tend to say its also a good call. 🧪 🛟 #physio #painresearch retractionwatch.com/2024/12/24/f...

This paper is making the rounds on social media. I have been trying really hard to find and understand the point where this paper actually says something of novel significance and I failed miserably 🤷🏻‍♂️ #physio #neuroskyence #painresearch bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Today, in the stupid article title department... How is this nonsense acceptable? #painscience #painresearch #neuroscience

Interesting new mutation identified in the SCN9A gene, which leads to nociceptive deficiency (not “insensitivity to pain” 🤦🏻‍♂️). This gene encodes for the Nav1.7 sodium gated channel. #painscience #painresearch #neuroscience pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39528285/

Amazing! Deep thalamic brain stimulation helped mice and 2 human patients with partial spinal cord injury to regain the ability to walk! #medsky #physio 🧪 🛟 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New study with shear wave elastography, shows patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain, have stiffer lumbar fascia snd muscles compared to controls. Good sample size and moderate to large effects! #painscience #physio #painresearch www.frontiersin.org/journals/bio...

Took it a bit, but just had the first sex bot follow me here 🙄

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Nature Outlook - A collection of articles about pain from September. #painscience www.nature.com/collections/...

Took the #SportsScience feed a bit if time to jump start, but, the content and posts are beginning to flow. Pin to your home to join the party bsky.app/profile/did:...

Since an academic douche bothered to mock at this: Why do my colleagues and I call the nociceptive section of the nervous system, an apparatus, and not a ”system”? Chat GPT gives a very good answer here. #painscience #neuroscience #painskyence

I created a new feed #sportsskyence, for sports scientists, physiologists, exercise scientists, and sports physicians. Active hashtags. Pin it to your home to join. Main active hashtags: #sportsscience #sportsmedicine #sportsmed #sportsinjuries #exercisescience bsky.app/profile/did:...

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New and important systematic review of language errors in #painmedicine and #painscience by @rogerhilfiker.bsky.social and team. Sorry for giving you guys hard time as reviewer 2 😉 Well done! www.jpain.org/article/S152...

Because of the massive wave of new joiners this week, feed servers are experiencing delays and temporary outages. It may take some time for Bluesky to update their API and for feed hosts to catch up. Nevertheless, the #painscience and #physiotherapy feeds are currently active.

Nicely presented. #painscience #painskyence #neuroscience www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

The #physiotherapy #painscience and #painskyence feeds are getting livelier and filling up with interesting content. Here are the links. Pin them to your home to join bsky.app/profile/did:... bsky.app/profile/did:...

New systematic review: “Glial-modulating agents for the treatment of pain: a systematic review” #painscience #physio journals.lww.com/pain/abstrac...

New systematic review “The role of neutrophils in pain: systematic review and meta-analysis of animal studies” #painscience #physio journals.lww.com/pain/abstrac...

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I preapproved several content creators whom I know for the #physio feed. This means their content automatically shows without the need for hashtags. If you are a content creator for the #physicaltherapy community, respond here, and I will add you to make the feed livelier.

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In this new study the authors noted what I would call obvious adverse effects of pain neuroscience education, which we predicted in our 2022 paper. Strange that they didn’t cite it, as I know they are aware of it! Link: shorturl.at/SZVJF Our study: shorturl.at/grKD5 #painscience #physio

I created another feed. This one will be more academic and curated. The only active hashtags are: #painscience #PainSkyence and #painskyence Link to pin: bsky.app/profile/did:...

New paper! “Neuroinflammation”: does it have a role in chronic pain? Evidence from human imaging” Review of PET scan results. Paper link: shorturl.at/PZkEx #painscience #physio

The high intensity zone (HIZ) making a comeback, with some strong statistical findings. People with HIZ are 8 times more likely to have pain than those without. #painscience #physiotherapy shorturl.at/C8ojQ

Yesterday’s lecture to Master’s students at Tel-Aviv Uni titled - “The Language and Logic of Pain”…Slide on the problem of Qualia in #neuroscience Link to a blog I wrote a while back: shorturl.at/q9eVx #painscience #physio

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The #painscience feed has been upgraded, capturing natural words and sentences, including patients' voices and posts. Pain researchers must stay in touch with the people they aim to help rather than being stuck in their academic echo chamber. This will also make the feed more lively

#PainSkyence #painskyence are now active for the #painscience feed. I might change the name of the feed later...🤔

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New comers tip. When posting long links, use URL shortener to save on words like this one: www.shorturl.at

New paper by @neiloconnell.bsky.social and team. "Enhancing the trustworthiness of pain research: A Call to Action." I think some points are missing, but I might have missed them in the first light reading. Overall, sentiment is clear, and I agree with it. shorturl.at/vRDMq #painscience #physio

New review: “Human molecular mechanisms of discogenic low back pain: A scoping review” #painscience #physio www.jpain.org/article/S152...