Emily Walker

The social determinants of health shape people’s pain experiences, management and outcomes. A recent article led by @emwalker_exphys calls for coordinated action to advance equitable pain care, by focusing on what clinicians can do in practice ✅ doi.org/qmd8

Excited to share this clinical update for the International Association of the Study of Pain’s 2025 Global Year 🌏

📣How does pain self-efficacy, kinesiophobia and health-related QOL mediate pain and disability improvements with goal setting and education in people with chronic low back pain? Read a recently published mediation analysis here 👉 doi.org/p682 @emwalker_exphys

Publication alert 🚨 Pain self-efficacy, kinesiophobia & health-related QoL = key mechanisms explaining how goal setting + pain education improved outcomes. How to target? 👉build confidence, reframe threat & support re-engagement in valued activities sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

One-Page Patient Fact Sheets for Low Back Pain in Primary Care jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

It’s been great to share my thoughts and research on here, however I will be leaving X to move over to BlueSky 🦋 You can follow me here: @emwalkerexphys.bsky.social

-“I empower the patient” – How do you do that? The only ability you have is to create the conditions for the patient to empower themself

A fantastic conversation with @ProfBrendan and Prof Inger Ekman on person-centred care youtube.com/watch?app=desk…

-We don’t need more time to do person-centred care. It’s how we look at it in the whole context, it is more efficient, it removes unnecessary and repetitive work we get stuck because we see it as an additional thing we do rather than just changing what we are doing

-Rehab means returning to previous state. What if you don’t want to return to that? What if you want to be completely different? -Reframing “What are your goals” to “What would you like to do or who would you like to be”?

"Listen to me, learn from me & hear what I am telling you, it makes me feel that my concerns have been understood" "Provide a holistic approach to my care that is tailored & looks after my physical,mental,occupational,social,spiritual & intellectual needs" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35384928/

"I have found my voice. My suffering is given voice and is understood. I had time to tell my story. I wasn’t held back by fear of being judged. People listen to me, hear me, and see me. I am validated, believed, and taken seriously."

"I have made sense of my pain. My pain is real. I now understand my pain better. My pain no longer frightens me. It is no longer threatening. I am less afraid & anxious. I feel that I can manage. I have some control back. I understand my body & pain & am starting a new journey."

4 of the themes describe what it means to live with chronic pain & 6 of the themes describe what it means to be on a healing journey with pain. "A Healing Journey with Chronic Pain: A Meta-Ethnography Synthesizing 195 Qualitative Studies" academic.oup.com/painmedicine/a…

Information provided was experienced as confronting, conflicting with deeply held beliefs Accepting theory & applying learning in practice required reinforcements from multiple actors (family/media/public/health professionals) @rodrizzo_pain new paper! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39544229/

"System (e.g. biomedical orientation), organisational (e.g. key performance indicators) and professional (e.g. identity as expert) factors compete with person-centred rehabilitation." Great work by @nickayes4 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

Newly released by @nathaliaccosta1 🌟 If there’s one paper to catch you up on the current challenges with clinical practice, patient care and the healthcare system - this is it 💯 link.springer.com/article/10.118…

When a patient receives a treatment for a MSK pain condition, the total treatment effect encompasses the specific effect of the treatment, contextual effects, and non-specific effects sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Thank you @ChristopherACSM for the share!

Thanks Australian Pain Society for putting the abstract of my recent paper in your newsletter this month 😁 @AusPainSoc #AusPainSoc