Chief Clinical Scientist | Pain Management & Research Centre @NthSydHealth | MSK Physiotherapist 🇳🇵 | #Pain #HealthEquity | A new dad | Views = own
Royal North Shore Hospital
Joined September 2013
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Thrilled to receive Research Excellence Award at the Royal North Shore Hospital, @NthSydHealth. Didn’t see that coming.
Thank you to all who’ve contributed to my research journey and life in general. @KollingINST
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Strengthening health systems to prioritise, provide care, and prevent osteoarthritis: a roadmap for global health policy
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What will shape the health of the next generation?
A new Lancet Commission outlines 17 interlinked catastrophic threats to health and human survival between 2025 and 2100: spkl.io/60157nJvz #21stCenturyThreatsToHealth @IHME_UW @UNFPA
ALT Promotional card for The Lancet Commission on 21st century global threats to health. Text on card reads '17 catastrophic threats. One shared framework for action.' There are also icons representing each of the 17 threats, e.g. a thermometer for Climate Change and a brain for Poor Mental Health.
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RECITAL trial out today in Lancet @eClinicalMed. Virtual vs in-person fracture care. Time for hospitals to modernise? thelancet.com/journals/eclin…
@teng_minjiat
@msk_health
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Lumbar Belt for Nonspecific Low Back Pain jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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📢Call for applications for membership of the Editorial Board
Applications are invited to fill the following Editorial Board vacancies beginning in 2027
👉Apply here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jphys.2026…
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Pain science advances when global perspectives come together. More than 5,000 pain professionals will meet in Bangkok for #WC2026, with plenary speakers from around the world, including @link_physio. bit.ly/4qx0aOI #PainScience
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Pain science advances when global perspectives come together. More than 5,000 pain professionals will meet in Bangkok for #WC2026, with plenary speakers from around the world, including @link_physio. bit.ly/4qx0aOI #PainScience
Saurab Sharma, PhD retweeted
Pain science advances when global perspectives come together. More than 5,000 pain professionals will meet in Bangkok for #WC2026, with plenary speakers from around the world, including @link_physio. bit.ly/4qx0aOI #PainScience
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Low back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Most episodes improve over time, but for many people pain can persist and become disabling. Our new review in the JAMA summarises what clinicians should know about assessment and management of low back pain. 🧵
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Tackling the growing burden of pain in low/middle-income countries
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4108…
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Financial Aid opportunities are available to support attendance at the #2026WorldCongressonPain.
Members from developing countries and trainees worldwide are encouraged to apply.
Application Deadline: 28 February bit.ly/4oTk5r7 #IASP2026
“For children with acute nonoperative limb injuries, pain scores did not improve with addition of either acetaminophen or hydromorphone to ibuprofen; adverse events were higher with hydromorphone.”
Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) or Opioid Analgesia Added to Ibuprofen for Children’s Musculoskeletal Injury jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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Well done @emwalker_exphys for leading this 👏 journals.lww.com/painrpts/fu…
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Excited to share this clinical update for the International Association of the Study of Pain’s 2025 Global Year 🌏
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Social determinants of health equity for people with pain: from understanding to action
journals.lww.com/painrpts/fu… via @link_physio et al
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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 ✅
doi.org/qmd8
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"The purpose of retraction is to correct the literature and ensure its integrity, not to punish the authors."
Howard Browman, COPE Trustee, expands on this and shares updates to the latest guidelines.
👉 Read editorial: ow.ly/GYg150XbVn2
#Scholcomms
#PublicationIntegrity
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Original: Drs. Tamang, @link_physio et al. found that in Bhutanese patients with
musculoskeletal pain, the Faces Pain Scale–Revised was most valid, reliable, and
preferred compared to others clinical used scales.
Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-5900…
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🆕 Largest global review (>130 studies and risk factors evaluated) of risk factors for knee #osteoarthritis (KOA) identifies obesity, knee injury & occupational risks as targets for future prevention strategies
🔓 Read free from @vickyduong et al. - oarsijournal.com/article/S10…
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🏃♂️🍎🥦🚭Adding healthy lifestyle management to guideline-based care improves disability for low back pain🚭🥦🍎🏃♂️
Synopsis: doi.org/10.1016/j.jphys.2025…
Commentary: doi.org/10.1016/j.jphys.2025…
@link_physio