Spinal cord injury #SCI: new review ow.ly/F8WJ50P7fj4 Hydrotherapy: Only 3 RCTs with only 71 participants. Overall, low methodological quality and a high risk of bias. So more work needed

Third International Motor Impairment Conference: Sydney 20-22 November 2023. Late abstracts are being accepted till 1st September. ow.ly/K3zK50PtGBk Contact us for details motorimpairment.org/contact/

Chronic pain: new insight into how a voltage-gated sodium channel isoform 1.7 can be targetted to reduce pain in rat models. Just out in #PNAS ow.ly/5Qtu50PvqvR

Third International Motor Impairment Conference in Sydney: First day now! Programme book here: motorimpairment.org/home/conferenc… Enjoy - feedback please

New review summarises the use of an upper limb profiling approach to quantify upper limb performance and motor impairment - across ageing, stroke, MS and Parkinson's disease Journal of Physiology ow.ly/3wXs50QfNbk

Journal of Neurophysiology: our study shows poor statistics, poor data presentation, and spin persist despite updated Author Guidelines: stronger strategic measures are needed. ow.ly/qwBP50QfNh1

ALS Motoneurone disease: review reveals potential biomarkers derived from a comprehensive nerve excitability battery - TROND. ow.ly/cIw350QfNQJ

Research Integrity? UNSW takes > 2 years for preliminary assessment of its brain researchers! Conflict of interest drives self-regulation by universities. Australia needs an independent research integrity office to weed out scientific misconduct. abc.net.au/news/science/2…

A groundbreaking trial is helping wheelchair-bound Victorians to their feet. Researchers are applying electrical currents to a patient's spinal cord, to try to reconnect their body and brain. youtu.be/KnVbKTtl3Nw Trial information: bit.ly/3Rk5Go8 Jackie Quist #7NEWS

Brain stimulation and exercise: Markus Amann (@UofU_Anesthesia), Simranjit Sidhu (Uni of Adelaide), Chris McNeil (UBC School Of Health & Exercise Sciences), and SimonGandevia (@Neuraustralia) have written a letter of response to da Silva Machado and Amiri. Journal of Physiology physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP…

Dario Farina and Simon Gandevia: our new review on motor control In J Physiol physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Proprioception: our opinion piece on proprioception has evoked debate. journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.11… Now we need to consider exactly what is 'low' level and 'high' level proprioception. There will be a spectrum!

New study on diet and exercise in people with osteoarthritis: ow.ly/iAOO50Rvja3 Good effect with very low energy diet. Treating physiotherapist do not seem to have been blinded to allocation.

DIET and EXERCISE in people with knee osteoarthritis: bjsm.bmj.com/content/58/10/… Good effect with very low energy diet. Treating physiotherapist do not seem to have been blinded to allocation.

Our recent short summary of 3 papers on acute intermittent hypoxia as a way to increase output to muscles. ow.ly/Ff1w50SB7Ow Further work is needed in our view.

Proprioception: our view is that there are low- and high-levels of proprioception - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35142561/. Some key tests of this are reported in our recent paper in the Journal of Physiology. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38734987/ #JPhysiol

RETRACTIONS AUSTRALIA: our website documents retractions by authors with an Australian affiliation. It has recently been updated. Keep an eye on the top 10! retractions.au

Motor Impairment Conference in Amsterdam 2025. Check Motorimpairment.org Plenty of dodgy science in Australia (e.g. at UNSW). New report exposes the well-known problems. Auditor's scathing report on NHMRC: ow.ly/zKlc50UlnMc

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International Research Integrity Conference. I am arranging this in Sydney in November 16-18th 2025. researchintegrityconf.com Note the excellent speaker list. Contact me. I am also moving to Bsky too Simon Gandevia.bsky.social