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David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 2d

“Listen to learn about the person in pain, as much as the pain in the person”

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Paul Glasziou @paulglasziou.bsky.social · 3d

Ah Ha! The secret system experts use for creating #overdiagnosis ;-)

David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 5d

Invent a problem, invent a test, invent a treatment, fix your test, voila! The state of health care across apps.

“Your wangle dangle is out & twisted. A few sessions of my TM wangle dangle therapy and your pain will be gone.”

Patient in future
“ I have wangle dangle syndrome”

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David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 3d

Tolerating pain and other stuff . A blog

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Tolerating pain and other stuff

When we talk about pain we often discuss two terms, pain threshold and paint tolerance. Pain threshold simply put it the point when a stimulus is registered as painful (yes I do…

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David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 4d

Our paper is free open access. Please read share, and enjoy , thank you 🙏

Contextual effects in musculoskeletal pain: are we overlooking essential factors? www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

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David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 5d

Invent a problem, invent a test, invent a treatment, fix your test, voila! The state of health care across apps.

“Your wangle dangle is out & twisted. A few sessions of my TM wangle dangle therapy and your pain will be gone.”

Patient in future
“ I have wangle dangle syndrome”

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David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 8d

Satire, it the old “it works for me and my patients.”

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David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 8d

But, but, but, it works in my hands.

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David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 10d

The Broken Wing Sign: A New Clinical Test to Detect Gluteus Medius Pathology with and without Fatty Infiltration www.jbjs.org/reader.php?r...

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David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 11d

A friendly reminder that sitting on the loo searching on google is not “research” it “a search”

RESEARCH is hard and requires scientific rigour, discipline, time and dedication, unlike searching on google.

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David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 12d

This article contains most of the research evidence on Modic 1 changes and infection association, from 2001 through 2024

www.necksolutions.com/modic-changes/

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David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 12d

Quite a few unless it is first onset of pain in a young person in a sport with extension loading.

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David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 14d

Our paper is free open access. Please read share, and enjoy , thank you 🙏

Contextual effects in musculoskeletal pain: are we overlooking essential factors?

www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

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David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks to everyone who has downloaded or read our paper.

Contextual effects in musculoskeletal pain: are we overlooking essential factors?

www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

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David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 13d

Don't be a nocebo! Why healthcare organizations should value patients' expectations’

www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

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David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks to everyone who has downloaded or read our paper.

Contextual effects in musculoskeletal pain: are we overlooking essential factors?

www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

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David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 14d

Our paper is free open access. Please read share, and enjoy , thank you 🙏

Contextual effects in musculoskeletal pain: are we overlooking essential factors?

www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

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David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 15d

File under “your scan is not necessarily your destiny”

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

The associations between magnetic resonance imaging findings and low back pain: A 10-year longitudinal analysis

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David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 16d

Neurological examination for cervical radiculopathy: a scoping review

bmcmusculoskeletdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Components of the neurological examination for cervical radiculopathy have high specificity but low sensitivity.

David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 18d

🅽🅾🅽-🅴🆀🆄🅸🅿🅾🅸🆂🅴

A big reason noneffective and effective treatment have a bigger effect than expected.

Clinician belief affects outcome.

I wrote about it here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

And here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

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David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 20d

An anteverted pelvis isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be.

kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

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David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 21d

How do we even measure central sensitisation in the clinic?

Bizarre SR and MA

Efficacy of manual therapy on central sensitization in subjects with chronic low back pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis

www.bodyworkmovementtherapies.com/article/S136...

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David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 21d

I think this is still one of the best things I have written. 26 years on and we are still ignoring the message.

Empower the patient. www.jospt.org/doi/pdf/10.2...

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David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 23d

Full text link kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me

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David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 23d

My letter to the editor regarding this

The simple etiology of scoliosis, low back pain, and herniated lumbar disks www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
An anteverted pelvis isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. A letter to the editor
Free 50 day access link www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 23d

Updated blog retlouping331888347.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/t...

My letter is now in print, was it worth it?

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