Many patients waiting long periods for #orthopaedic surgery consults have multiple risk factors for other #chronicdiseases , presenting an untapped opportunity to improve their health before surgery, new research finds: doi.org/10.17061/phrp3…

Christopher Williams Simon Davidson University Centre for Rural Health

👇👇UN News feature on WHO’s first guideline on chronic primary low back pain

Do’s and don’ts for tackling chronic back pain | UN News news.un.org/en/story/2023/…

Excited to see our systematic review of cost-of-illness published in PAIN Journal. A top team interested to study MSK pain in children and adolescents: Veronica Souza, Gisela Miyamoto, Steve Kamper, Christopher Williams and Tie Parma Yamato

Link: journals.lww.com/pain/abstract/…

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JUST PUBLISHED: Meaningful coproduction with clinicians: establishing a practice-based research network with physiotherapists in regional Australia

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I think we have achieved something very special. Hard to put my gratitude to co-authors into words ⤵.

I'm proud to share my first publication as first author, investigating the impact of #exercise on pain self-efficacy in adults with non-specific chronic low back pain.

Let me know, is this the effect you expected?

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When a large team comes together for a Systematic Review, you hope it’s a prelude to something much bigger. Stay tuned, but for now: Open Access via MSKPhysioJournal: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37167807/ Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Amsterdam UMC Griffith University Erasmus University JointResearch OLVG University of Sydney

Turns out the Dunning-Kruger effect is likely an artifact of the research design. Science beats scientists Science Vs
theconversation.com/debunking-the-…

Our Cochrane review on spinal cord stimulators for #backpain out today.

Bottom line:
-Mod certainty evidence of no benefit vs placebo in medium term
-Uncertain if benefit on pain in immediate term
-Adverse events (infection, re-operation) common

cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.10…

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Using evidence in practice can be challenging. Great to see some of the fantastic support work by Connor Gleadhill and Research In Practice Network in print.
Open access here: bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

We're proud to announce that the 18th international Forum on back and neck pain research will be held in Groningen, the Netherlands, Aug 30 - Sept 1, 2023! Follow us on Twitter and aanmelder.nl/forumgroningen…. Please share!

Thanks for having me The Wire, was great to chat!

🔥Hot off the press 🔥
📢 National Centre of Implementation Science (NCOIS)'s Director Luke wolfenden and team have published an updated #systematicreview exploring strategies that help #schools implement policies and practices to prevent #chronicdisease .

🧐Read all about it 👉bit.ly/updatedSR

Our NHMRC funded RCT was published today JAMA. A 7yr effort from the researcher team, clinicians and trial participants. We have more work to do, but we might have identified a new way to manage CLBP.
If want more info register at resolve.neura.edu.au

Lia Kim from Junkee Media interviewed me about our growing pains study and pain more broadly. She made a great video you can see here:
facebook.com/watch/?v=61758…

Note to self: back away from the webcam!

Mary O'Keeffe Alex Martiniuk Institute for Musculoskeletal Health Christopher Williams Ivy Shih

The first paper of my post-doc at #Usyd has been published at Pain Medicine Journal 🤩

Our review mapped various implementation strategies that have been used to promote the uptake of LBP guideline recommendations. We also identified strategies that haven’t been explored yet…

This was a really fun paper to write. Driven by a great thought-leader Seth Peterson JOSPT Community

On the home stretch recruiting for this study, if you know anyone experiencing low back pain, living in Australia, please share 🙏

This study will help us understand what people experiencing low back pain need from treatments to make them worthwhile

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I'm proud to share this publication from my PhD exploring the concept of baseline imbalance in meta-analyses of RCTs in the field of hypertension.

Have you thought about conducting a meta-analysis on the baseline outcome?

Open-access at doi.org/10.1038/s41440…

Thanks Donna Lu from the Guardian Guardian Australia for chatting about our growing pains study.
Mary O'Keeffe Alex Martiniuk Laura Montgomery Christopher Williams Amabile Borges Dario Michael Rathleff Institute for Musculoskeletal Health Institute for Musculoskeletal Health_usyd

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One of the clearest signs of learning is rethinking your assumptions and revising your opinions.

21 things I rethought in 2021: a thread...