Thanks to anyone who engaged in this study looking at beliefs and experiences related to preventing pelvic girdle pain during pregancy. Manuscript now available. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Sama Hoole This is a baseless claim. A compelling body of research shows similar whole muscle hypertrophy is achieved across a wide spectrum of loading ranges - up to 30+ repetitions - provided sets are taken close to failure pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28834797/

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Modic changes are a hot topic on this app today, so lets do a “Modic thread 🧵 “ Old ostrich shouting at Modic changes.

Living with pain—a systematic review on patients’ subjective experiences …maticreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Painful conditions like osteoarthritis share common risk factors with many co-morbidities across all of the bodily systems. We need to move beyond seeing pain as a "joint" or "muscle" or "bone" problem and see it for what it is...a systems problem. frontiersin.org/journals/endoc…

I’ve Been a Surgeon for 25 Years—Here’s What I Wish They Told Me in Medical School Medical school taught me anatomy, physiology, and pathology. It taught me how to memorize, how to endure, and how to work longer hours than most people thought possible. What it didn’t teach me

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The bigger the disc herniation, the better it shrinks...📉 Spontaneous Disc Regression in different herniations occurs as folllows: -Sequestration - 96% -Extrusion - 70% -Protrusion -41 % -Disc Bulging -13% Complete herniation Resolution is seen in - 43% of Sequestrations -

"Enhancing clinical reasoning using a free real-time integrative app in the classroom or clinic". See you there. 😀

"Who knows doesn’t talk. Who talks doesn’t know." On Ursula K. Le Guin's birthday, her magnificent translation of the Tao Te Ching themarginalian.org/2016/10/21/lao…

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Although I practice like this I just don't know how we say this with any certainty. We don't have studies that compare exercise "loading" with graded activity and we don't have studies where "loading" is superior to passive treatments (e.g Radonovic). 1/

“It’s hard to trust an individual, it’s easier to trust an image”—patients with low back pain want imaging as a means of coping with uncertainty bmcprimcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Accuracy of clinical neurological examination in diagnosing lumbo-sacral radiculopathy: a systematic literature review …musculoskeletdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

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It’s a wide-angle-lens perspective on the idea of “manual therapy” after more 25 years of experience and hard study. I’ve already made some improvements in response to some good feedback, as I do. But I’ve ignored a lot more childish insults/outrage. 🙄 painscience.com/manual_therapy

Exercise for chronic musculoskeletal pain: time to prescribe with precision bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/11/4/e… Improving exercise reporting in primary studies will provide a stronger evidence base for systematic reviews