Researchers have been sneaking secret messages into their papers in an effort to trick AI tools into giving them a positive peer-review report Read the full story: go.nature.com/4eVTIwC

Intriguing research suggests barefoot running on grass may help Plantar Heel Pain. While the results are promising there are several key limitations to this study so further research is needed before we recommend this to patients.

Impact of different acute low back pain definitions on the predictors and on the risk of transition to chronic low back pain: a prospective longitudinal cohort study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40663110/

🚨New original research in the #CanadianJournalPain: Development of a pain management competency assessment for physiotherapy students: Integrating simulation and written assessments 👉 Access the article here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📣 The latest Chiropractic Academy of Research Leadership newsletter is out — the first since the launch of CARL III! 📰 Read the updates, highlights, and opportunities for all CARL cohorts: tinyurl.com/CARL3July2025 Kiropraktorernes Videnscenter European Chiropractors' Union Chiro & Manual Ther Vancouver Foundation

Check out the recent #CanadianJournalPain editorial by Gabrielle Pagé & Joel Katz 👉Highlighting the success of the Canadian Journal of Pain’s inaugural Editorial Review Mentorship Program 🔗tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A Dietary Pattern That Could Prevent Dementia brainpost.co/weekly-brainpo…

Cool review on the interactions between physical exercise and intestinal microbiota! Check it out 👇 Advancements of physical exercise and intestinal microbiota and their potential mechanisms frontiersin.org/journals/micro…

No drugs, more sex? And Rock’n Roll: effective non-operative treatments and practical management strategies for older adults with lumbar spinal stenosis chiromt.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… #ChiroTM Chiro Australia European Chiropractors' Union The Royal College of Chiropractors Kiropraktorernes Videnscenter

Interested in love and mate preferences? Our dataset includes responses from 117,293 participants across 175 countries. You're welcome to use it for your own research! Paper and dataset linked below. @ with amazing collaborators from the large-scale cross-cultural consortium <3

Meta-analysis: many want to exercise, few actually do so - the overall intention-behaviour gap is 47.6% 🧠 🏋️: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37460164/

Step count shows an inverse relationship with mortality. The largest benefits are seen with ~7000 steps/day, but risks continued to decrease to a smaller extent w/every additional 1000 steps/day up 12 000 steps/day (the highest # analyzed). thelancet.com/journals/lanpu…

Injured once, triggered forever? How the brain rewrites stress responses , via EurekAlert!! U of T News eurekalert.org/news-releases/…

The findings of this one suggest that, while traditional lipid markers are likely to remain unchanged after an exercise intervention, exercise may modify specific lipid subtypes in an intensity, sex-dependent manner.

Nature The optimistic brain: scans reveal thought patterns shared by positive thinkers nature.com/articles/d4158…

The Effect of Information on the Time Course of Pain During an Episode of Acute Experimentally Induced Low Back Pain—A Randomised Experiment - Travers - 2025 - European Journal of Pain - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Nature Neuroscience Neural anticipation of virtual infection triggers an immune response nature.com/articles/s4159…

The brain activates front-line immune cells in response to the mere sight of a sick person go.nature.com/4f8TPF0

Featured: Drs. Peter Stilwell, Timothy H Wideman et al. conducted a theoretically-driven phenomenological study with adults living w/ pain — Reveal a new mode of pain-related suffering that does not require self-reflection Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Avatars who appear to be sick entering the peripersonal space in virtual reality are anticipated by multisensory–motor areas, activate the salience network, and trigger activation of innate lymphoid cells, mirroring responses seen in actual infections nature.com/articles/s4159…