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Gordon diamond

@GordonDiamond1

physiotherapist, interest in persistent pain & empowering self mgt, occ health & voc rehab. love family time & walking our springer spaniel. views my own

 edinburgh
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Joined April 2015
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The added stress of chronic pain on life healthskills.wordpress.com/2…
The added stress of chronic pain on life

The added stress of chronic pain on life

For a minute, I’d like you to grab an ice-cube. If you don’t have one handy, try this at home or when you’re having your next gin and tonic. Hold onto that ice-cube. Keep holding …

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‘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
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Read my latest piece focused on promoting the benefits of being physical active for people with arthritis. Also dispelling some myths! @_ISCP_ @Arthritisie bonsecours.ie/tralee/news/it…
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TED talk: How to design the circular economy youtu.be/heIXdS7Gs7c via @YouTube #circulareconomy @Rapanuiclothing
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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. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Replying to @thebowtiePT @GregLehman
@thebowtiePT @GregLehman
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''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''.
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Spot the difference. Answers below pls. #thepaincoach #pain
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📢 Patients suffering from chronic pain need validation This concept study shows that physiotherapists’ validating communication improves even after brief training Read it here 🔓: bddy.me/32boiRM @rtholopainen @PeteOSullivanPT #Physiotherapy #LowBackPain #PatientCare
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📢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
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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.
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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: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/200…
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Physio Meets Science (@PhysioMeScience) profile picturePhysio Meets Science@PhysioMeScience1 Jan 2022
From Fear to Safety: A Roadmap to Recovery from Musculoskeletal Pain 👀👀👇👇👌👌 @jpcaneiro @bunzli_s @PeteOSullivanPT & colleagues pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3497…
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Some people prefer to ignore the later papers and still reference the earlier ones - discomfort with change and evolving evidence maybe??
Peter O'Sullivan (@PeteOSullivanPT) profile picturePeter O'Sullivan@PeteOSullivanPT27 Dec 2021
Its been quite a journey of evolution for me from a narrow structural/biomechanical view on pain in the early years - to a flexible, person centred, biopsyschosocial perspective...so grateful to so many people who have shared the journey with me :)
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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
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Self-management at the core of back pain care: 10 key points for clinicians - PubMed pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3411…
Self-management at the core of back pain care: 10 key points for clinicians - PubMed

Self-management at the core of back pain care: 10 key points for clinicians - PubMed

People with low back pain (LBP) self-manage their pain most of the time. Therefore, clinicians and health systems should empower them to do it well and provide knowledge and skills to make good...

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AMP@AMP_Physio7 Dec 2021
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 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3396…
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