PhysiosOnline Evie Martin

Neen suffers from chronic pain due to mixed connective tissue disease, with features of rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, scleroderma and myositis.

In this discussion, she talks about some of her frustrations when seeking help from physiotherapists.

Neen feels that Explain Pain and Pain Neuroscience Education type approaches have been harmful, rather than helpful, to her and others with secondary pain. She calls on physiotherapists to carefully listen to their patients and to seriously consider whether PNE will be welcome or helpful in each individual case.

Evie on twitter: @onlinephysios https://twitter.com/OnlinePhysios

Neen on twitter: @ArthriticChick https://twitter.com/ArthriticChick

Full blogpost at: https://physiosonline.co.uk/2022/12/dont-explain-pain/
Video at: https://youtu.be/EmqYfK5oitQ

Asaf Weisman is a clinical physiotherapist currently doing a PhD in artificial intelligence and computer vision. He has a particular interest in nociception and pain theory.

Evie and Asaf had this discussion following an interview with Lorimer Moseley by Jack Chew on The Physio Matters Podcast. You can watch that interview here https://youtu.be/xUBA7qQJ6vk

Asaf responds to some points made by Lorimer in the TPMP interview, and we discuss more broadly the topics of nociception, pain science and the treatment of chronic pain by physiotherapists.

Jo Baxter is a physiotherapist and member of the "Physios Giving Well" community - a group of physios who donate monthly to GiveWell's top rated,  most effective and evidence-based charities.
As a community Physios Giving Well aims to raise money for *effective* charities and to spread the idea of Effective Altruism in the healthcare community.



Twitter: @onlinephysios

About Physios Giving Well: https://physiosonline.co.uk/2022/05/why-were-giving-well/

Sue Julians is physiotherapist who has written a book about her experiences of Covid lockdown and the effects it had on her business and family. Sue is Director and Practice Principal at Barbican Physio in London.

In this interview we discuss


Why and how she wrote her book
Her experiences of using twitter
The positives and negatives of social media
The effect of lockdown on her business, family and mental health
Writing as catharsis
The effect of lockdowns on her own and others' children
Sue's favourite author Elif Shafak, the book Sue mentions is https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43706466-10-minutes-38-seconds-in-this-strange-world
Effective Altruism
The challenges and importance of being an ethical consumer 
Being part of the Physios Giving Well community https://physiosonline.co.uk/2022/05/why-were-giving-well/

Dr. Akhil Bansal is a doctor who set up the effective altruism-inspired organisation "High Impact Medicine" (https://www.highimpactmedicine.org/). Their aim is "bringing together medics who want to have a wide reaching positive impact". He is currently working as a research analyst for Charity Entrepreneurship.

In this interview we discuss


The concept of Effective Altruism and how this may resonate with healthcare providers such as doctors and physiotherapists
Charitable giving in general, and the drive to help others
Akhil's background and upbringing and how this may have impacted his tendency to be drawn to EA
The reality of what it means for children to die from infectious disease
Akhil's hopes for Hi-Med and his ambition to build a community where doctors can support and inspire each other to do as much good as possible
Some book recommendations that have nothing to do with EA

Links and resources: 

HI-Med https://www.highimpactmedicine.org/: "High Impact Medicine, Hi-Med, is a new movement bringing together medical students and doctors to learn more about all the ways medics can help as many people as possible in their careers and engage with opportunities to have a wide-reaching positive impact within medicine".

Charity Entrepreneurship: https://www.charityentrepreneurship.com/akhil-bansal 

The Physios Giving Well fledgling community: https://physiosonline.co.uk/2022/05/why-were-giving-well/ 

GiveWell - How much does it cost to save a life? https://www.givewell.org/cost-to-save-a-life 

Akhil's article on the Effective Altruism Forum: "High Impact Medicine, 6 months later - Update & Key Lessons"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/TapN3wYhBJPFNBiGN/high-impact-medicine-6-months-later-update-and-key-lessons 

Book Recommendations (not EA-related):


 "Open" by Andre Agassi
"Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
"Piranesi" by Susanna Clarke

To learn more about High Impact Medicine or join their community, go to highimpactmedicine.org

To learn more about Physios Giving Well and join our community, go to https://physiosonline.co.uk/2022/05/why-were-giving-well/ or find us on twitter @onlinephysios and say something like "I'm in" :)

Tom Jesson is the author of a popular book "Sciatica", and is
currently finishing work on his second book "Cauda Equina Syndrome"
with co-author Rob Tyer.

In this interview, we don't talk about sciatica or cauda equina syndrome.