For nearly 30 years, Pauline experienced chronic pain. Her brain was sending faulty signals from an injury that had long healed. Pain Reprocessing Therapy with UHN's Rehabilitation Pain Service helped retrain her nervous system.
Read more at:
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Chronic pain affects 1 in 5 Canadians. ECHO Pain is a medical education program designed to equip clinicians with the skills and support needed to provide safer, more effective care.
➡️ @kiteuhn.bsky.social researchers review 10 years of its impact: www.uhnresearch.ca/news/echos-b...
#ChronicPain
New video posted today: The link between #constipation and #chronicPain
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Book Give Away 😁
Jan 1 2026 at 4 pm ET
www.youtube.com/live/jUXSFwp...
Thank you to all my friends who made 2025 a special year!
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The TAPMI team came to visit us today! And they brought 🍪 cookies. Thank you, and Happy Holidays to you all🎄🕎🎉🎊
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Listen to my interview to this podcast: Reflexions- a voice for Canadians with Disabilities
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@AccessibleMedia
Get 25%OFF on this Exercise Wall Poster www.DoctorAndreaFurlan.store
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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
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
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
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
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
The FLU campaign started at my hospital @uhn.ca
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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
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...
For one of my pain modulation „bibles“ that also includes information on the amygdala-mPFC-PAG circuitry see:
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
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
You are not alone!
#ChronicPain
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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/...
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!💥
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
Watch my interview on @cbcnews-rss.bsky.social about the new non-opioid painkiller #suzetrigine
youtube.com/watch?v=KfJX...
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...
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...
An action plan for #pain in #Canada 🇨🇦
www.canada.ca/en/health-ca...
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
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"An abundance of Gardnerella vaginalis was linked to poor #OralHealth scores, whereas abundance of Lancefieldella (genus) and Mycoplasma salivarium were linked to #migraine.": buff.ly/MeOJPim
via @medscape.com
#pathogens #ChronicPain #MedSky
University makes 'ground-breaking' discovery offering hope for #chronicpain sufferers
Researchers hope the breakthrough will lead to new treatments for conditions such as #fibromyalgia and #rheumatoid #arthritis
news.stv.tv/north/aberde...
