Dr Andrea Furlan
@andreafurlan.bsky.social
I'm a physician, scientist, teacher, YouTuber and author. I try to help the person that has chronic pain, not just the pain they have (opinions my own)🇨🇦🇧🇷
The Gut–Brain Axis: Why Constipation May Increase Chronic Pain
YouTube video by Dr. Andrea Furlan
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January 4, 2026 at 1:11 PM
⚡Book Give Away Today 😀
YouTube video by Dr. Andrea Furlan
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January 1, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Thank you to all my friends who made 2025 a special year!
December 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Thank you to all my friends who made 2025 a special year!
The TAPMI team came to visit us today! And they brought 🍪 cookies. Thank you, and Happy Holidays to you all🎄🕎🎉🎊
December 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The TAPMI team came to visit us today! And they brought 🍪 cookies. Thank you, and Happy Holidays to you all🎄🕎🎉🎊
Listen to my interview to this podcast: Reflexions- a voice for Canadians with Disabilities
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Chronic Pain: How can we support people who live with it? - Part 1
Podcast Episode · Reflections · 2025-11-28 · 28m
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December 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Listen to my interview to this podcast: Reflexions- a voice for Canadians with Disabilities
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November 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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🎥 New video posted today 👉🏻Knee Conditioning Exercises
- Decrease risk of falls
- Reduce Pain
- Improve balance
- Restore Range of Motion
👉🏻 youtu.be/eN_Tx-NJSo4
#exercises #Knee #Arthritis #Fallsrisk
- Decrease risk of falls
- Reduce Pain
- Improve balance
- Restore Range of Motion
👉🏻 youtu.be/eN_Tx-NJSo4
#exercises #Knee #Arthritis #Fallsrisk
Exercises to STRENGTHEN your KNEES at Home
YouTube video by Dr. Andrea Furlan
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November 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
🎥 New video posted today 👉🏻Knee Conditioning Exercises
- Decrease risk of falls
- Reduce Pain
- Improve balance
- Restore Range of Motion
👉🏻 youtu.be/eN_Tx-NJSo4
#exercises #Knee #Arthritis #Fallsrisk
- Decrease risk of falls
- Reduce Pain
- Improve balance
- Restore Range of Motion
👉🏻 youtu.be/eN_Tx-NJSo4
#exercises #Knee #Arthritis #Fallsrisk
Reposted by Dr Andrea Furlan
From November 2 to 8, it’s National Pain Awareness Week.
A week to shed light on the reality of chronic pain and the people dedicated to understanding and addressing it.
Follow #NPAW2025 to stay tuned!
#PrioritizePain @paincanada.bsky.social @painbc.bsky.social
A week to shed light on the reality of chronic pain and the people dedicated to understanding and addressing it.
Follow #NPAW2025 to stay tuned!
#PrioritizePain @paincanada.bsky.social @painbc.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
From November 2 to 8, it’s National Pain Awareness Week.
A week to shed light on the reality of chronic pain and the people dedicated to understanding and addressing it.
Follow #NPAW2025 to stay tuned!
#PrioritizePain @paincanada.bsky.social @painbc.bsky.social
A week to shed light on the reality of chronic pain and the people dedicated to understanding and addressing it.
Follow #NPAW2025 to stay tuned!
#PrioritizePain @paincanada.bsky.social @painbc.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr Andrea Furlan
Today marks the beginning of Pain Awareness Week
For those of us with #fibromyalgia, this week is deeply personal. It’s not “just pain” it’s fatigue, brain fog & the daily fight with an invisible illness.
Let’s raise awareness & compassion. 💜
#NPAW2025 #FAC @pain_canada
For those of us with #fibromyalgia, this week is deeply personal. It’s not “just pain” it’s fatigue, brain fog & the daily fight with an invisible illness.
Let’s raise awareness & compassion. 💜
#NPAW2025 #FAC @pain_canada
November 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Today marks the beginning of Pain Awareness Week
For those of us with #fibromyalgia, this week is deeply personal. It’s not “just pain” it’s fatigue, brain fog & the daily fight with an invisible illness.
Let’s raise awareness & compassion. 💜
#NPAW2025 #FAC @pain_canada
For those of us with #fibromyalgia, this week is deeply personal. It’s not “just pain” it’s fatigue, brain fog & the daily fight with an invisible illness.
Let’s raise awareness & compassion. 💜
#NPAW2025 #FAC @pain_canada
I'll be LIVE at the Panel "Helping You To Help Yourself"
Tuesday Nov 4, 2025 12 noon PST - 3pm EST
Register to "Putting the Pieces Together" brought to you by @paincanada.bsky.social
www.paincanada.ca/events/putti...
#NationalPainAwarenessWeek2025 #NPAW2025 #PrioritizePain
Tuesday Nov 4, 2025 12 noon PST - 3pm EST
Register to "Putting the Pieces Together" brought to you by @paincanada.bsky.social
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#NationalPainAwarenessWeek2025 #NPAW2025 #PrioritizePain
Putting the Pieces Together | Pain Canada
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November 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I'll be LIVE at the Panel "Helping You To Help Yourself"
Tuesday Nov 4, 2025 12 noon PST - 3pm EST
Register to "Putting the Pieces Together" brought to you by @paincanada.bsky.social
www.paincanada.ca/events/putti...
#NationalPainAwarenessWeek2025 #NPAW2025 #PrioritizePain
Tuesday Nov 4, 2025 12 noon PST - 3pm EST
Register to "Putting the Pieces Together" brought to you by @paincanada.bsky.social
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#NationalPainAwarenessWeek2025 #NPAW2025 #PrioritizePain
Why Does Pain Feel So Different?
Follow me to learn more about: #ChronicPain #Nociceptive #Neuropathic #Nociplastic #neuroplastic #TMS #PainNeuroscience #PainNeuroscienceEducation #PNE #PRT #Neuroplasticity #PainEducation #PainScience
Follow me to learn more about: #ChronicPain #Nociceptive #Neuropathic #Nociplastic #neuroplastic #TMS #PainNeuroscience #PainNeuroscienceEducation #PNE #PRT #Neuroplasticity #PainEducation #PainScience
August 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Why Does Pain Feel So Different?
Follow me to learn more about: #ChronicPain #Nociceptive #Neuropathic #Nociplastic #neuroplastic #TMS #PainNeuroscience #PainNeuroscienceEducation #PNE #PRT #Neuroplasticity #PainEducation #PainScience
Follow me to learn more about: #ChronicPain #Nociceptive #Neuropathic #Nociplastic #neuroplastic #TMS #PainNeuroscience #PainNeuroscienceEducation #PNE #PRT #Neuroplasticity #PainEducation #PainScience
Reposted by Dr Andrea Furlan
Dear Bsky Friends, breakthrough: finally a treatment that works for patients with chronic #pain following #whiplash! Cost-effective treatment + reduced disability & symptoms immediately after treatment + at 1y follow-up. Open access:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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August 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Dear Bsky Friends, breakthrough: finally a treatment that works for patients with chronic #pain following #whiplash! Cost-effective treatment + reduced disability & symptoms immediately after treatment + at 1y follow-up. Open access:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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For one of my pain modulation „bibles“ that also includes information on the amygdala-mPFC-PAG circuitry see:
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
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Cellular Circuits in the Brain and Their Modulation in Acute and Chronic Pain | Physiological Reviews | American Physiological Society
Chronic, pathological pain remains a global health problem and a challenge to basic and clinical sciences. A major obstacle to preventing, treating, or reverting chronic pain has been that the nature ...
journals.physiology.org
July 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
For one of my pain modulation „bibles“ that also includes information on the amygdala-mPFC-PAG circuitry see:
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Dr Andrea Furlan
Hope you are enjoying summer activities.
Some tips for Gardening with #Chronic Pain
- Warm up first
- Use a wheelbarrow
- Lift with your legs
@peoplepainnetwork.bsky.social
Resource @andreafurlan.bsky.social
www.doctorandreafurlan.com/book
Some tips for Gardening with #Chronic Pain
- Warm up first
- Use a wheelbarrow
- Lift with your legs
@peoplepainnetwork.bsky.social
Resource @andreafurlan.bsky.social
www.doctorandreafurlan.com/book
July 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Hope you are enjoying summer activities.
Some tips for Gardening with #Chronic Pain
- Warm up first
- Use a wheelbarrow
- Lift with your legs
@peoplepainnetwork.bsky.social
Resource @andreafurlan.bsky.social
www.doctorandreafurlan.com/book
Some tips for Gardening with #Chronic Pain
- Warm up first
- Use a wheelbarrow
- Lift with your legs
@peoplepainnetwork.bsky.social
Resource @andreafurlan.bsky.social
www.doctorandreafurlan.com/book
We can’t deny it: there is emotional pain.
We need better treatments that address the emotional and motivational components of pain.
Thalamic CGRP neurons define a spinothalamic pathway for affective pain
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We need better treatments that address the emotional and motivational components of pain.
Thalamic CGRP neurons define a spinothalamic pathway for affective pain
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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July 20, 2025 at 12:59 AM
We can’t deny it: there is emotional pain.
We need better treatments that address the emotional and motivational components of pain.
Thalamic CGRP neurons define a spinothalamic pathway for affective pain
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We need better treatments that address the emotional and motivational components of pain.
Thalamic CGRP neurons define a spinothalamic pathway for affective pain
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Dr Andrea Furlan
Breaking #chronicpain news! 📺
Watch Global News Montréal at 1730 or @globalnews.ca National at 1830, for interviews by reporter Felicia Parrillo ...
Featuring @evp82.bsky.social & Dr. Mark Ware, & me - as a chronic pain patient & advocate - about why these pain research results matter!💥
Watch Global News Montréal at 1730 or @globalnews.ca National at 1830, for interviews by reporter Felicia Parrillo ...
Featuring @evp82.bsky.social & Dr. Mark Ware, & me - as a chronic pain patient & advocate - about why these pain research results matter!💥
Our new @NatureHumBehav paper shows why we need a holistic pain biomarker framework. ML on blood tests, brain/bone imaging & genetics predicts clinical diagnoses but falls short on subjective pain. Adding psychosocial (mood, sleep, stress) boosts both. shorturl.at/vxxeO
Biological markers and psychosocial factors predict chronic pain conditions - Nature Human Behaviour
Fillingim et al. show that biological and psychosocial factors jointly predict conditions associated with chronic pain.
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July 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Breaking #chronicpain news! 📺
Watch Global News Montréal at 1730 or @globalnews.ca National at 1830, for interviews by reporter Felicia Parrillo ...
Featuring @evp82.bsky.social & Dr. Mark Ware, & me - as a chronic pain patient & advocate - about why these pain research results matter!💥
Watch Global News Montréal at 1730 or @globalnews.ca National at 1830, for interviews by reporter Felicia Parrillo ...
Featuring @evp82.bsky.social & Dr. Mark Ware, & me - as a chronic pain patient & advocate - about why these pain research results matter!💥
Reposted by Dr Andrea Furlan
In patients with knee osteoarthritis and overweight or obesity, metformin, 2000 mg/d, for 6 months had a moderate and statistically significant effect on knee pain reduction compared with placebo.
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June 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
In patients with knee osteoarthritis and overweight or obesity, metformin, 2000 mg/d, for 6 months had a moderate and statistically significant effect on knee pain reduction compared with placebo.
ja.ma/43TzAae #MedSky
ja.ma/43TzAae #MedSky
Watch my interview on @cbcnews-rss.bsky.social about the new non-opioid painkiller #suzetrigine
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What we know about the new painkiller suzetrigine
YouTube video by CBC News
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July 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Watch my interview on @cbcnews-rss.bsky.social about the new non-opioid painkiller #suzetrigine
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Reposted by Dr Andrea Furlan
The Scientist: 'Immune Markers Help Identify Subgroups of ME/CFS Patients'
'Proteins involved in neuroinflammation found in the cerebrospinal fluid could help researchers better diagnose and treat chronic fatigue syndrome.'
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'Proteins involved in neuroinflammation found in the cerebrospinal fluid could help researchers better diagnose and treat chronic fatigue syndrome.'
www.the-scientist.com/profiling-im...
Immune Markers Help Identify Subgroups of ME/CFS Patients
Proteins involved in neuroinflammation found in the cerebrospinal fluid could help researchers better diagnose and treat chronic fatigue syndrome.
www.the-scientist.com
July 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The Scientist: 'Immune Markers Help Identify Subgroups of ME/CFS Patients'
'Proteins involved in neuroinflammation found in the cerebrospinal fluid could help researchers better diagnose and treat chronic fatigue syndrome.'
www.the-scientist.com/profiling-im...
'Proteins involved in neuroinflammation found in the cerebrospinal fluid could help researchers better diagnose and treat chronic fatigue syndrome.'
www.the-scientist.com/profiling-im...
97% of asymptomatic knees had 'abnormality' on MRI. 115 sedentary adults. 78% were 40 or older, median age 44 years (range 25-73). Mean KOOS was 90 or greater all items. Meniscal tears, cartilage & bone marrow lesions of PF joint most common.
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Prevalence of abnormal findings in 230 knees of asymptomatic adults using 3.0 T MRI - Skeletal Radiology
Objective To identify abnormalities in asymptomatic sedentary individuals using 3.0 Tesla high-resolution MRI. Materials and methods The cohort comprised of 230 knees of 115 uninjured sedentary adults...
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July 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
97% of asymptomatic knees had 'abnormality' on MRI. 115 sedentary adults. 78% were 40 or older, median age 44 years (range 25-73). Mean KOOS was 90 or greater all items. Meniscal tears, cartilage & bone marrow lesions of PF joint most common.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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July 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Reposted by Dr Andrea Furlan
How do you treat pain without defaulting to opioids? In this story, #TemertyMed scientists talk about personalized approaches to treating pain, and why genetics and brain biomarkers may be important considerations. bit.ly/45zbBP4
June 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
How do you treat pain without defaulting to opioids? In this story, #TemertyMed scientists talk about personalized approaches to treating pain, and why genetics and brain biomarkers may be important considerations. bit.ly/45zbBP4