This pages shows all the active blogs from the category, From the Journals. Posts in this category report and/or comment on published articles relevant to rehabilitation. Posts may cover any aspect of the paper, and the paper may cover any aspect of rehabilitation, or even not be specific to rehabilitation. There will always be a connection between the paper and rehabilitation.
Is Long Covid a functional disorder?
In 1978, I submitted my first paper to the British Medical Journal. It concerned what…
Frailty and rehabilitation
Is frailty a helpful concept within the rehabilitation context? I asked myself this question after…
A model of person-centred rehabilitation
This blog post is based on an extensive systematic review that generated a sound, theoretically-based…
Chronic non-malignant pain
A recent article stated, “It has long been established that phantom limb pain is a…
Entrustability – what is it?
Most professions initially developed based on trust. Examinations were rare. Doctors (and other professions) learn…
Covid, FND, and models
“Helping the Public Understand Adverse Events Associated With COVID-19 Vaccinations. Lessons Learned From Functional Neurological…
NICE on chronic pain
Today, 7th April 2021, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, otherwise known as…
Reflection on progress
This post was precipitated by reading two papers and following references and links in the…
Randomised Comparison Trials
A recently published paper discusses placebos used in randomised controlled trials, referring to the placebo…
AI and decision making
Rehabilitation decisions are complex because so many factors have an influence, and we do not…
A surfeit of guidelines?
I am writing a syllabus for doctors training in Rehabilitation Medicine. The syllabus will cover,…
Learning from failure
Designing and completing a large, well-designed randomised study is hard work. It must be very…
Back pain.
Patients with chronic low back pain often have a low quality of life and treatments…
Systematic reviews – reviewed
Systematic reviews, with or without meta-analysis are attractive. They appear to offer much more secure…
Reporting standards in rehabilitation research.
There are many useful published standards that improve the quality of all published biomedical research….
Outcome measures
This post refers to two papers in the JAMA Journal of Internal Medicine: one is…
Chronic pain
Patients who have chronic pain and who also (ab)use drugs and alcohol pose a challenge,…
Being a carer
Rehabilitation professionals will interact with family carers every day as part of day-to-day work. And…
