The Versus Arthritis ‘Pain Research in the UK: Combating musculoskeltal pain together’ event was held today in conjunction with Pain Centre Versus Arthritis at the University of Nottingham. MSK pain researchers from around the UK were invited to present elevator pitches to summarise their research and signpost us to their posters where their research was […]
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Enjoyed presenting our poster ‘Patient and Public Involvement in Research: a new module for undergraduate medical students delivered through co-production’ at this year’s UK Clinical Research Facility (UKCRF) Network 15th Annual Conference. I am pictured here with co-author Debbie Butler. Michael Prior, expert by lived experience, also gave an oral presentation at the conference on […]
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Excited to announce I have just accepted the position of Assistant Professor in Sports and Exercise Medicine at the University of Nottingham in the Department of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Sports Medicine. I will miss working alongside everyone at the City Hospital campus but looking forward to the new opportunities at QMC.
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Pleased to share my latest systematic review & meta-analysis with first author Dr. Siew-Li Goh 'Efficacy and potential determinants of exercise therapy in knee & hip osteoarthritis' is published today. We found in this study that in people with knee or hip osteoarthritis 8 weeks of exercise can have moderate but significant benefits for pain […]
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OARSI World Congress Toronto, Canada 2-5 May 2019 Enjoyed attending my first OARSI world congress earlier this month. Highlights included attending the inaugural Sport, Exercise & Physical Activity & Osteoarthritis Prevention Special Interest Group discussion group meeting and catching up again with Dr Koji Aso from Kochi University, Nankoku, Japan, who spent last year working […]
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I am shocked but honoured to find out today that my submission was the highest rated ‘Therapy’ abstract to Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) World Congress 2019. My abstract ‘Identifying predictors of placebo response in osteoarthritis clinical trials of three agents with different routes of delivery: A meta-analysis using individual patient data’ has been selected […]
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My latest Open Access paper investigating the effect of existing anxiety on future osteoarthritis pain is now available. Joint first authors James Burston and Ana Valdes and colleagues report on 'The impact of anxiety on chronic musculoskeletal pain and the role of astrocyte activation' in the journal Pain. It was a huge collaborative effort including […]
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Excited to be informed the video abstract I produced for our paper ‘Bidirectional association between disturbed sleep and neuropathic pain‘ is a finalist in the Dove Medical Press Video Abstract Award (2018).
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Nice surprise to win the poster prize at today's NIHR Nottingham BRC Musculoskeletal Annual Science Day for my poster 'Identifying Placebo Responders and predictors of response in osteoarthritis through individual patient data meta-analysis'.
Read More I am pleased to announce that my abstract ‘Identifying predictors of placebo response in osteoarthritis clinical trials of three agents with different routes of delivery: A meta-analysis using individual patient data’ has been accepted as an oral presentation at the 2019 World Congress of Osteoarthritis (OARSI) in Toronto. I hope everyone attending is able to stay […]
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Proud of our team of academics and patient representatives producing and delivering the new Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) module to University of Nottingham BMedSci Students, and equally proud of the students who gave such great final group presentations yesterday.
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