Dr. Rachel Zoffness (@drzoffness) 's Twitter Profile
Dr. Rachel Zoffness

@drzoffness

Pain scientist. Psychologist. Lecture @Stanford & @UCSFmedicine. Disruptor. Author 📚The Pain Management Workbook. Neuroscience nerd 🧠 #SciComm #MedEd

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Why Storytelling Is Part of Being a Good Doctor | The New Yorker—The Scalpel and the Pen, published today newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

Dr. Rachel Zoffness (@drzoffness) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Psychoneuroimmunology (def): a field of science devoted to the INTERACTION btwn emotions, cognitions, neuroendocrine + immune systems- 📣 aka, the effect of #psychology on HEALTH, DISEASE & PAIN💥💥💥 Brain + body are connected 💯% of 👏🏼 the👏🏼 time👏🏼 #MedTwitter #psychtwitter

Psychoneuroimmunology (def):
a field of science devoted to the INTERACTION btwn emotions, cognitions, neuroendocrine + immune systems-

📣 aka, the effect of #psychology on HEALTH, DISEASE & PAIN💥💥💥

Brain + body are connected 💯%
of 👏🏼
the👏🏼
time👏🏼
#MedTwitter #psychtwitter
Dr. Rachel Zoffness (@drzoffness) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🛑 SIGNS A PROVIDER HASNT BEEN TRAINED IN PAIN ❌blames it just on tissue damage & skips the 🧠 ❌recommends only 💊 or 🔪 ❌fails to target diet, sleep, trauma, movement, mental health ❌targets only a body part, not a WHOLE PERSON 📣 Pain is biopsychosocial ALWAYS #MedTwitter

🛑 SIGNS A PROVIDER HASNT BEEN TRAINED IN PAIN
❌blames it just on tissue damage & skips the 🧠
❌recommends only 💊 or 🔪
❌fails to target diet, sleep, trauma, movement, mental health
❌targets only a body part, not a WHOLE PERSON

📣 Pain is biopsychosocial ALWAYS
#MedTwitter
Christine Goertz (@christinegoertz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Let's #TalkTurkeyAboutLowBackPain! Rx Meds are not always the best treatment for #LowBackPain. Experts agree that non-drug strategies should be tried 1st. Heat, acupuncture, exercise, PT, spinal manipulation, massage, or a combo of modalities may help. #LowBackPainRealities

Let's #TalkTurkeyAboutLowBackPain! Rx Meds are not always the best treatment for #LowBackPain. Experts agree that non-drug strategies should be tried 1st.
Heat, acupuncture, exercise, PT, spinal manipulation, massage, or a combo of modalities may help. #LowBackPainRealities
Justin Garson (@justin_garson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

People often say “my depression just came out of nowhere.” No it didn’t. It came out of months or years of silently suffocating under the demands of life until every ounce of your being revolted.

Nicholas Fabiano, MD (@ntfabiano) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Academics are paid nothing for peer review. Yet journals made a total of over $8.3 billion on article processing charges alone between 2019-2023. Make it make sense.

Academics are paid nothing for peer review.

Yet journals made a total of over $8.3 billion on article processing charges alone between 2019-2023. 

Make it make sense.
ɹǝʇlnoԀ pıʌɐᗡ 🚴🏻 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 🇬🇧 (@retlouping) 's Twitter Profile Photo

File under “your scan is not necessarily your destiny” The associations between magnetic resonance imaging findings and low back pain: A 10-year longitudinal analysis pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC56…

File under “your scan is not necessarily your destiny”

The associations between magnetic resonance imaging findings and low back pain: A 10-year longitudinal analysis

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC56…
Steve Kamper (@stevekamper1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Not sure who's still here, but anyway! We collected all the placebo controlled trials for non-surgical Rx on back pain together in a systematic review. It was pretty epic, and pretty sobering results-wise. Hope you like it. ebm.bmj.com/content/early/…

Not sure who's still here, but anyway!

We collected all the placebo controlled trials for non-surgical Rx on back pain together in a systematic review. It was pretty epic, and pretty sobering results-wise.
Hope you like it.
ebm.bmj.com/content/early/…
Dr. Rachel Zoffness (@drzoffness) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Friend & bada$$ Henry Abbott wrote a book called Ballistic about movement, injuries, prevention & intervention. It's a great read!!! Highly recommend to athletes, sports-lovers, movers & shakers alike. 🔥🙌🏼 Congrats to you, Henry!!! Find it here: henryabbott.com #pttwitter

ɹǝʇlnoԀ pıʌɐᗡ 🚴🏻 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 🇬🇧 (@retlouping) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Navigating the biopsychosocial landscape: A systematic review on the association between social support and chronic pain journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Navigating the biopsychosocial landscape: A systematic review on the association between social support and chronic pain
journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
Evoolve Pain Care Academy (@evoolvepaincare) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Evထlve Pain Care Academy provides a tiered training program towards becoming a certified Cognitive Functional Therapy practitioner. Learn about our first course, Tier 1 - KNOWLEDGE here: evoolvepaincare.academy/course/knowled… #cft #lowbackpain #backpain #chronicpain #physio #chiro #medicine

Australian Pain Soc (@auspainsoc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'... according to a new study led by the University of New South Wales and Neuroscience Research Australia, helping people with chronic pain manage their emotions can lessen their experience of pain.' ow.ly/QVWj50VObP0 #ChronicPain #LowBackPain

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🔥Most important paper of 2025🔥 👉Injury/disease don't reliably predict pain 👉Biomarkers alone can't explain pain 👉PSYCHOSOCIAL factors reliably predict chronic pain 👉Painful conditions can be predicted from the SYNERGY btwn bio + psychosocial factors tinyurl.com/jiksh

🔥Most important paper of 2025🔥
👉Injury/disease don't reliably predict pain
👉Biomarkers alone can't explain pain
👉PSYCHOSOCIAL factors reliably predict chronic pain
👉Painful conditions can be predicted from the SYNERGY btwn bio + psychosocial factors
tinyurl.com/jiksh
ɹǝʇlnoԀ pıʌɐᗡ 🚴🏻 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 🇬🇧 (@retlouping) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New study shows no relationship between neck posture and pain in 18-21 year old adults. “Text Neck” is not a thing can we stop saying it is? link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New study shows no relationship between neck posture and pain in 18-21 year old adults. “Text Neck” is not a thing can we stop saying it is? link.springer.com/article/10.100…