A brief thread on natural resolution of lumbar disc herniations, prolapses and extrusions.

“In lower limb tendons (in humans), PRP doesn’t work. … I’m sorry, I can’t help that.” Professor Hans Tol. Clinician, top researcher and research leader 🇳🇱, no financial conflict of interest. ⁦Isokinetic Conference⁩ #isok22 ⁦Adam Weir⁩

LANCET INFOGRAPHIC: Cognitive functional therapy versus usual care for chronic, disabling low back pain thelancet.com/infographics-d…

Our latest paper is now published online ahead of print PTJ: Journal of APTA . It's open access ad infinitum. Instead of a long winded thread, see next for a neat infographic summarising the paper. Or, because it's open access, you can read it long form :) academic.oup.com/ptj/advance-ar…

Thank you to my wonderful co-authors @nathaliaccosta1 Professor Jeremy Lewis PhD FCSP Ben Schram Wayne Hing

Subgrouping individuals with migraine associated neck pain for targeted management: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Part of our special issue on head and neck pain: sciencedirect.com/journal/muscul…

Lifting weights is NOT bad for your joints! And we’ve known this since the 1980s… “degenerative joint changes in weight lifters is not greater than that found in the general population!” pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7407459/

Posture hype drives me nuts. Glad it is getting a good debunk! Is good posture overrated? [Spoiler: yep] theguardian.com/science/2023/a… by Liam Mannix Peter O'Sullivan: "'There is just no good evidence' that posture is in any way a problem." Needed: move, exercise, eat well, sleep

Dear Twitter Friends, in our 3rd episode of the comprehensive pain management Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy (BJPT) editorial series, Liesbet De Baets , Paul Hodges & I discuss why, who, & how clinicians can phenotype pain as nociceptive, neuropathic, or nociplastic. 🔓 authors.elsevier.com/c/1hf1j51N1vuy…

Approx. 1 in 3 MRI ordered for the spine are deemed inappropriate. This is a significant problem considering the prevalence of low back pain & spinal pain in in the general population. link.springer.com/article/10.118…

Our paper 'Current and future advances in practice: tendinopathies of the shoulder' has now been published academic.oup.com/rheumap/articl… #openaccess Mmoffatt408 Tash Maher Prof Greg Irving

The DRG is the mini brain of the peripheral sensory nervous system, and yes it can influence nociception and thus pain states. 👇 Dorsal Root Ganglion (DRG) and Chronic Pain ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Foam rolling and stretching do not provide superior acute flexibility and stiffness improvements compared to any other warm-up intervention: A systematic review with meta-analysis 👇👇👇 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Nice free resource here for all interested in pain giffordsachesandpains.com/download-mater…

🚨 #BJSMBlog 🦵 Concern for knee joint damage should not influence the choice of treatment strategy in young patients with meniscal tear ⚡️ Is early surgery or a strategy of exercise and education with optional delayed surgery superior? READ MORE ➡️ bit.ly/493INgC

Physical activity should be the primary intervention for individuals living with chronic pain A position paper from the European Pain Federation (EFIC) 'On the Move' Task Force 👇👇👇 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38703009/

💪 Bridging the gap between strengthspan and lifespan 📘 bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/…

Adults with a history of low back pain went nearly twice as long without a recurrence of their back pain if they walked regularly, study finds. 🔗 hubs.li/Q02CzRzR0

Time to put the “wear and tear” and “bone on bone” narrative in the rear view mirror of history. We need to change the narrative

Running is not bad for the back and may even strengthen the intervertebral discs! (see Belavy et al. 2017)