Detecting Elbow Fracture: who is suitable for radiography after a recent elbow injury? 🤔 (➖) test: patient with equal full elbow extension ➡️ NO RADIOGRAPHY (➕) test: patient unable to completely extend the elbows ➡️ YES to RADIOGRAPHY Article bmj.com/content/337/bm…

We miss out on opportunities when we only ask what could go wrong. It's also worth asking what could go right. Change carries risk: we might fail. But sticking to the status quo also brings risk: we might fail to grow. It's better to test and learn than to never test at all.

Relatively rapid decline in muscle mass with immobilisation. #useitorloseit pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36104842/

Biomarkers and Longitudinal Changes in Lumbar Spine Degeneration and Low Back Pain: The Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project - ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

PAIN IS COGNITIVE 📣 👉🏼This includes thoughts, beliefs & ATTENTION. If you've ever been so absorbed in an activity you briefly "forgot" your pain, or distracted a child during a shot, you've seen this in action.🔥 #MedTwitter PAIN Journal tinyurl.com/2fpp58kr

Cumulative meta-analysis of 18 trials found a beneficial effect of exercise therapy on pain (SMD -0.38) and function (SMD -0.31) in hip #ostoearthritis. It is unlikely a new trial added to current evidence will change the conclusion. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Below is a tweetorial on Diagnostics Labels in Low Back Pain. 1⃣ Labels. An easy fit, A societal expectation! 2⃣ The opposition 3⃣ Non-specific LBP 4⃣ Evidence to support Non-specific LBP Its a bit of long one but i hope its helpful.

Just Publish in British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) 🔥 Thanks to A/Prof Patrick J Owen🙏 Infographic. Primary surgery versus primary rehabilitation for treating anterior cruciate ligament injuries 👇👇 A/Prof Patrick J Owen Tobias Saueressig @physiomeetsscience Daniel Belavy and colleagues bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/…

Bias 🚨 Negative language use of the physiotherapist in low back pain education impacts anxiety and illness beliefs: A randomised controlled trial in healthy respondents | Elsevier Enhanced Reader reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/…

Vigorous exercise causes muscles to produce lactate - which crosses the blood-brain barrier and is a messenger for the brain to produce neurotrophic factors like BDNF. BDNF is like a youth elixir for the brain and the signal that activates it is lactate from high-intensity

So much understanding of running related injuries (RRIs) is based on what researchers define injury to be. Aisling Lacey DCU School of Health and Human Performance has explored how athletes experience and understand injury. 👇Siobhán O Connor Sinéad O'Keeffe Aoife Burke Athletic Rehabilitation Therapy Ireland journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… 🧵

This has been a fun collaboration and exciting to see these important findings come to light! More coming on this soon!

🎯’Management of contextual factors to enhance placebo and minimize nocebo effects in clinical practice’ 👏🏻 thanks a lot to all the co-authors Maxi Miciak PhD🌻forever Diletta Barbiani 🔓 academic.oup.com/book/54240/cha… #placebo #nocebo #context #pain #expectation

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36580149/ Interesting paper here on treatment specificity for sciatica Doesn’t appear to be a specific treatment for a more specific Dx! “How effective are physiotherapy interventions in treating people with sciatica?” (Spoiler - not very 😳)

A recent podcast with Stu McGill has gone ‘viral’ with him claiming many outdated and unsupported things for back pain! Including no-one over the age of 50 should try and push themselves for a personal best on deadlifts! These are my thoughts on that… strap in! 😎🍿

Sitting right or 'correct' from a health perspective is just not something humans should be worrying themselves with. Sit how ever you like ✅️ Move if its more comfortable ✅️ Exercise ✅️ Reframe your understanding of this phenomenon & let the baggage, including naff,

New meta-analysis finds that taking an ice bath after strength training impairs gains. The inflammation, damage, stress is the SIGNAL for adaptation. Take it away...we blunt the response. Sometimes, damage is a good thing...

You know when people ask you for evidence or proof when you challenge bullshit being spread on social media… never forget the wise words of Hitchens… #BurdenOfProof

Common sense guidelines for movement & exercise! Fully downloadable and in multiple languages cor-kinetic.com/common-sense-e…

Mulligan manual therapy added to exercise improves headache frequency, intensity and disability more than exercise alone in people with cervicogenic headache doi.org/10.1016/j.jphy… Roger Kerry (& Barbara Gagnie)- one for the book? ChadCookPT Seth Peterson Key Clinical Skills