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🎉 Honored to receive the UNSW Early Career Researcher (ERC) of the Year award! This recognition reflects the collective effort of amazing mentors, collaborators, and the communities I’ve worked with. UNSW Medicine & Health, NeuRA (Neuroscience Research Australia), Centre for Pain IMPACT

Dr Adrian Traeger recently spoke with Adele Ferguson on the online abuse experienced by doctors and researchers who speak out about medical procedures. Read more: abc.net.au/news/2024-12-1…

Important new study from Australia & NZ Low Back Pain Research Network; and no Paywall! Institute for Musculoskeletal Health

Anyone want a job at UNSW? It is a good job, working with nice people (including me :) ) external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5293…

Next week, the Centre for Pain IMPACT is organising a supper event for all NeuRA (Neuroscience Research Australia) researchers: The Cochrane Risk of Bias Training Day! A day of insights, skill-building, and networking to strengthen your research! 💡📝 #EvidenceBasedMedicine #PainResearch

📢 Coming soon! Our latest study, "Non-pharmacological and non-surgical treatments for low back pain in adults: an overview of Cochrane Reviews," will be published shortly! Rodrigo Rizzo Aidan Cashin Stay tuned! 👀 #BackPain #CochraneReviews #EvidenceBasedPractice

We were privileged to host Prof Jonathan Sterne for a workshop on #RoB2 tool, learning how to assess risk of bias in randomised trials. NeuRA (Neuroscience Research Australia)

🚀 Big win for our pain research group! Congrats to NeuRA’s Dr. Aidan Cashin on securing a $1.6M NHMRC Investigator Grant! This EL2 grant will drive innovation in non-medicine treatments for chronic pain—#ChronicPain #PainResearch #NeuRA

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Fantastic to make the front cover of The Journal of Pain with the featured article “Enhancing the trustworthiness of pain research: A call to action” jpain.org/article/S1526-… It’s open access so get downloading!

What are the benefits and harms of antidepressants for low back pain and spine‐related leg pain? Find out in our Cochrane review, published today: doi.org/10.1002/146518…

Comprehensive overview of non-pharma interventions for LBP led by Rodrigo Rizzo and a pretty solid team - Aidan Cashin Michael Ferraro Saurab Sharma, PhD Hopin Lee elo 🤍 Andréa Furlan, MD🇧🇷 MauritsvanTulder

Duloxetine (and other SNRIs) probably has small effects on low back pain intensity. Amitriptyline (and other TCAs) probably does not reduce low back pain intensity. Findings from Michael Ferraro 's Cochrane review. cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.10…

Great session on post-amputation pain 100 years of progress from IASP President Andrew Rice, Dr Heather Batten, Jack Devonshire & Jackson Linke. Fascinating insights from historical records, current practice and the state of the research and exciting TITAN trial #AusPainSoc

We can't work out why funds designated to medical research can't be released from the MRFF. Not new debt, current funds. So we animated it 👇. Share this, tag in your MPs, and help AAMRI secure the election promise that the unspent funds, that are allocated and available, will be

Yes. The research sector needs investment in fellowships so that the best researchers can actually do the research. #mrff

Updated NeuPSIG systematic review & guideline for treatment of neuropathic pain now published in The Lancet Neurology. A privilege to contribute to this project, brilliantly led by Nadia Soliman doi.org/10.1016/S1474-… Centre for Pain IMPACT UNSW Medicine & Health IASP Australian Pain Soc

Wonderful to have Prof Andrew Rice at NeuRA (Neuroscience Research Australia) this week giving advice to Centre for Pain IMPACT PhD students, and presenting his work on the IASP position statement on use of cannabis and cannabinoids for pain relief.

'... according to a new study led by the University of New South Wales and Neuroscience Research Australia, helping people with chronic pain manage their emotions can lessen their experience of pain.' ow.ly/QVWj50VObP0 #ChronicPain #LowBackPain

🔓31 Cochrane reviews of 644 RCTs, n= 97,183 adults with LBP. High confidence in the findings of 19 reviews, moderate confidence in 2 reviews, and low confidence in the findings of 10 reviews." Rodrigo Rizzo James McAuley Michael Ferraro Saurab Sharma, PhD Andrea D. Furlan MD PhD PM&R cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.10…