Jo Nijs

Dear Bsky Friends, call to PTs to lead the physiotherapy #evolution towards multimodal #lifestyle interventions 4 chronic #pain – today during keynote @Australian Physiotherapy Association conference in Adelaide #APASC25

Dear Blsky Friends, 13 strategies to address barriers to implementing #sleep training within #physiotherapy practice 4 chronic #pain. Top priority strategies focus on #education & #training of PTs, structural changes & raising awareness. Spread the word! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧪 PhD opp on mental distress & opioid tapering via the Midlands MHN PhD Programme for Healthcare Professionals! 🎓
✅ 3 yrs on NHS salary (backfill funded)
✅ Fees, research, training & travel
💡 Up to 0.2 FTE clinical work
#PhD #MentalHealth #Bigdata #Opioids
🔗 midlandsmhndtp.ac.uk/project/2026...

Dear Bsky Friends, #shoulder pain phenotyping: a practical guide for clinicians to determine predominant nociceptive, #neuropathic, or #nociplastic shoulder #pain incl. three case presentations. Open access until Oct 15: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lg2i51N1w...

‘I’ve conquered the #cancer, yet continue to suffer from #pain and #fatigue. It feels so unfair…’ Time to take perceived #injustice into account when treating cancer #survivors! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Dear Bsky Friends, more #neuroinflammation in primary sensory & motor cortex in nociplastic vs. nociceptive low back #pain, with neuroinflammation related with clinical features of #nociplastic pain (remote sensory sensitivity, poor #sleep): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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...

Dear Blsky Friends, What you eat is how you sleep: A balanced diet rich in plant-based foods enhances the production of sleep-regulating metabolites such as melatonin, GABA & serotonin – no need to supplement! tinyurl.com/2pbv75z6

Dear Bsky Friends, physical activity as a central pillar of #lifestyle modification in the management of chronic #musculoskeletal #pain & its effects on pain modulation & #sleep, #stress regulation, #diet & #smoking behavior: tinyurl.com/2ntkuda3

Dear Bsky Friends, Hazel Jenkins, Chris Maher, Mark Hancock et al. raising the bar for low back pain research to long-term (1–2 years) & very long-term (≥2 years) follow-up www.thelancet.com/journals/lan..., ft. our invited @thelancetrheum.bsky.social commentary www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Dear Bsky Friends, #interprofessional #collaboration recommendations: the final part of the Belgian guideline on Multimodal Management of Chronic Primary #Pain in Primary Care, available 4 free in English, French & Dutch: www.worel.be/worel/docume...

Dear Bsky Friends, key evidence-based recommendations regarding non-pharmacological interventions from the #Belgian guideline on Multimodal Management of Chronic Primary #Pain, available 4 free in English, French & Dutch: www.worel.be/worel/docume...

Dear Bsky Friends, pushback of #pharmacological treatment in the #Belgian guideline on Multimodal Management of Chronic Primary #Pain, available 4 free in English, French & Dutch: www.worel.be/worel/docume...

Dear Bsky Friends, the #Belgian guideline on Multimodal Management of Chronic Primary #Pain is available 4 free in English, French & Dutch. Below part 1 of the guidelines’ recommendations: www.worel.be/worel/docume...

Dear Bsky Friends, why focusing (too much?) on pain phenotyping 4 precision #pain medicine when so many pain comorbidities are left untreated? #Insomnia, #overweight, #gut dysbiosis & #stress intolerance are treatable pain comorbidities! During keynote #ASEAPS2025 Singapore

Dear Bsky Friends, wonderful to see neurologists, psychologists, occupational therapists, and physios coming together to learn more about personalized multimodal #lifestyle #medicine 4 chronic #pain in our pre-congress course #ASEAPS2025 Singapore aseaps2025.org

Dear Bsky Friends, a #paradigm shift from a tissue- & disease-based approach towards multimodal #lifestyle interventions 4 chronic #pain: the complete BJPT editorial series is now available: paininmotion.be/blog/detail/...

Dear Bsky Friends, #immune senescence or immune exhaustion? #Metabolic & immune dysfunctions can be interconnected in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic #Fatigue Syndrome (ME/#CFS): 🔓 tinyurl.com/5cac8nvr

Dear Bsky Friends, 👏 to Wouter Van Bogaert 4 becoming the 3rd @PaininMotion @vubrussel.bsky.social Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoc #ExcellenceInResearch. Interested in becoming a @MSCActions-fellow in our group? Contact the chairperson of the relevant research line: tinyurl.com/2b6v3pha

Dear Bsky Friends, for people with #arthritis, #exercise & physical activity programs have only small effects on #fatigue & #sleep: tinyurl.com/fnf2ta94. We may need targeted sleep management for improving fatigue & sleep: academic.oup.com/ptj/article/...

Dear Bsky Friends, bridging the gap between diagnosis & oncological treatment by providing a holistic preparation for #surgery & postoperative #rehabilitation in breast #cancer patients: tinyurl.com/mvemuk89 @vubrussel.bsky.social

Dear Bsky Friends, check out the 7 research lines of our Pain in Motion research group @vubrussel.bsky.social , incl. visions, short descriptions, chairpersons & publications: tinyurl.com/2b6v3pha

Can PTs provide effective #sleep management to #neck & low #back pain patients? YES, WE CAN! Very large effects on insomnia severity, sleep quality, fatigue, depressive symptoms, etc. + improvement maintained at 1y. @JAMANetworkOpen Open access: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

FEBS Press The stress response and circadian rhythms are essential to maintain appropriate responses to the environment and are known to be impacted by the gut microbiota. Due to the interconnected nature of th....

I "Gut" Rhythm: the microbiota as a modulator of the stress response and circadian rhythms

Well done Gabriel Tofani on leading the charge on this review
#OpenAccess
@apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Dear Bsky Friends, thanks to @FWO, we're able to study impaired #glucose metabolism in chronic low #back #pain & are hiring 2 Dutch language PhD candidates @vubrussel.bsky.social & @KULeuven. This work builds on these p-o-c studies: link.springer.com/article/10.1... www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/13...

Dear Bsky Friends, linking #nutrition & chronic #pain in breast #cancer survivors: fantastic PhD work by Sevilay Tümkaya Yilmaz @VUBrussel based on the following research: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=%28T%C3...

Dear Bsky Friends, mind-blowing work by John Cryan and team, suggesting that changes in #gut #microbiota result in alterations in the #circadian clock, which in turn trigger time-of-day-specific impairments in #stress responsivity: www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

Dear Bsky Friends, some #epigenetic modifications are responsive to #lifestyle, making them a suitable biomarker for many diseases, incl. chronic #pain. Is epigenetics the molecular substrate of multimodal lifestyle approaches for chronic pain? 🔓until Feb 19: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kMSK51N1v...

Dear Bsky Friends, not all patients with chronic low #back #pain present features of central #sensitization, yet these features appear to predict and relate to (changes in response to treatment of) movement-evoked pain: free access until Dec 29: authors.elsevier.com/c/1k3xF51N1v...

Dear Bsky Friends, our 2021 Lancet Rheumatology paper received the ‘highly cited paper’ label from Clarivate TM Essential Science Indicators, as it received enough citations to place it in the top 1% of the academic field of Clinical Medicine: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...