Leila Heelas
@lheelas.bsky.social
Consultant Physiotherapist https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/optimise/ & within Physiotherapy Research Unit at Oxford University Hospitals NHS FT. I am a PhD Candidate with the Social Biobehavioural group at UCL and research officer of the Physiotherapy Pain Asscn.
Very happy to be part of this inspiring group of researchers. Exploring how social assets and deficits affect health.
Curious about the faces of the Social Biobehavioural Research Group?
We held our termly team meeting last week – and we’ve got a photo to prove it! 📸
To meet our team members, check out the SBB Spotlight series on our blog 👇
sbbresearch.org/news-events/...
We held our termly team meeting last week – and we’ve got a photo to prove it! 📸
To meet our team members, check out the SBB Spotlight series on our blog 👇
sbbresearch.org/news-events/...
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Very happy to be part of this inspiring group of researchers. Exploring how social assets and deficits affect health.
Fabulous, what a great initiative 👏
Celebrating the Beauty and Power of Art with the 2025 Art Awards.
🎨 Through art, we don't merely promote understanding; we inspire action.
Thank you to all who submitted. View all submissions at https://f.mtr.cool/enytoahwdc
🎨 Through art, we don't merely promote understanding; we inspire action.
Thank you to all who submitted. View all submissions at https://f.mtr.cool/enytoahwdc
May 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Fabulous, what a great initiative 👏
Do join us for this webinar, free to Physio Pain Assn members.
February 16, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Do join us for this webinar, free to Physio Pain Assn members.
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Don’t miss this episode of Today on @BBCSounds!
BPS Honorary Member Prof. Irene Tracey, Vice Chancellor of @UniofOxford, guest edits the programme with themes of hope and kindness.
👉 Listen now www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
BPS Honorary Member Prof. Irene Tracey, Vice Chancellor of @UniofOxford, guest edits the programme with themes of hope and kindness.
👉 Listen now www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Today - 28/12/2024 - BBC Sounds
Professor Irene Tracey, Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford, guest edits Today.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 31, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Don’t miss this episode of Today on @BBCSounds!
BPS Honorary Member Prof. Irene Tracey, Vice Chancellor of @UniofOxford, guest edits the programme with themes of hope and kindness.
👉 Listen now www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
BPS Honorary Member Prof. Irene Tracey, Vice Chancellor of @UniofOxford, guest edits the programme with themes of hope and kindness.
👉 Listen now www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Just discovered this. Anyone else use it. What do you find helpful or clunky about it? www.researchrabbit.ai#show_popup_v...
ResearchRabbit
The most powerful discovery app ever built for researchers 🔥
www.researchrabbit.ai
December 14, 2024 at 8:47 AM
Just discovered this. Anyone else use it. What do you find helpful or clunky about it? www.researchrabbit.ai#show_popup_v...
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Ouch! If one in five studies in a field appears fishy, we can’t trust systematic reviews 🫣
I fear the fields I work in may have a similar proportion of rubbishy papers 😱
I fear the fields I work in may have a similar proportion of rubbishy papers 😱
"The sheer prevalence of problematic studies, and the fact that we could not find a simple pattern for identifying them, undermines the validity of systematic reviews within our research field" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Fraudulent studies are undermining the reliability of systematic reviews – a study of the prevalence of problematic images in preclinical studies of depression
Systematic reviews are considered by many to constitute the highest level of scientific evidence. A caveat is that the methods used in a systematic review – combining information from multiple studies...
www.biorxiv.org
December 10, 2024 at 8:41 AM
Ouch! If one in five studies in a field appears fishy, we can’t trust systematic reviews 🫣
I fear the fields I work in may have a similar proportion of rubbishy papers 😱
I fear the fields I work in may have a similar proportion of rubbishy papers 😱
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1/Great to be on Bluesky- to get started here’s a mega thread on what I know about #FND and how to have the best chance of beating it. It's just my personal view- so not set in stone - I hope people will find it helpful.
December 5, 2024 at 6:40 PM
1/Great to be on Bluesky- to get started here’s a mega thread on what I know about #FND and how to have the best chance of beating it. It's just my personal view- so not set in stone - I hope people will find it helpful.
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Welcome to the 20M+ new folks who just joined BSky!! 🔥 Here's a Pain Science & Medicine starter pack for those interested. Please RT so that our community can find us! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Comment if you'd like to be added 🤓👇🏼
#medsky #medtwitter #PsySciSky #neuroscience #neuroskyence #PainSky
go.bsky.app/4r8uAeG
Comment if you'd like to be added 🤓👇🏼
#medsky #medtwitter #PsySciSky #neuroscience #neuroskyence #PainSky
go.bsky.app/4r8uAeG
November 20, 2024 at 1:39 AM
Welcome to the 20M+ new folks who just joined BSky!! 🔥 Here's a Pain Science & Medicine starter pack for those interested. Please RT so that our community can find us! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Comment if you'd like to be added 🤓👇🏼
#medsky #medtwitter #PsySciSky #neuroscience #neuroskyence #PainSky
go.bsky.app/4r8uAeG
Comment if you'd like to be added 🤓👇🏼
#medsky #medtwitter #PsySciSky #neuroscience #neuroskyence #PainSky
go.bsky.app/4r8uAeG
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Our team features in two recent Nature Outlook articles on pain:
1. How pain is misunderstood and ignored in women www.nature.com/articles/d41...
2. A drug-free prescription for pain www.nature.com/articles/d41...
1. How pain is misunderstood and ignored in women www.nature.com/articles/d41...
2. A drug-free prescription for pain www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How pain is misunderstood and ignored in women
Sex hormones seem to have profound effects, but research mostly avoids the question of sex.
www.nature.com
December 4, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Our team features in two recent Nature Outlook articles on pain:
1. How pain is misunderstood and ignored in women www.nature.com/articles/d41...
2. A drug-free prescription for pain www.nature.com/articles/d41...
1. How pain is misunderstood and ignored in women www.nature.com/articles/d41...
2. A drug-free prescription for pain www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Fantastic paper here about young people’s experiences of pain. Qualitative research presented in poetic form and translated to multiple languages by my fantastic colleague Dr Francine Toye pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39432809/
Understanding what it is like to experience pain as you grow up: a poetic meta-ethnography - PubMed
A recent Lancet Commission raised concerns about the management of child and adolescent pain. We aimed to undertake a comprehensive review of qualitative research to understand children and adolescent...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
December 5, 2024 at 6:24 AM
Fantastic paper here about young people’s experiences of pain. Qualitative research presented in poetic form and translated to multiple languages by my fantastic colleague Dr Francine Toye pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39432809/
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Research priorities in #regionalanaesthesia identified by anaesthetists have been published, BUT the views of patients, carers & other healthcare professionals have not been considered.
Enter the Regional Anaesthesia UK (RA-UK) priority setting partnership!
#AnSky #MedSky
https://buff.ly/3Zpr9kL
Enter the Regional Anaesthesia UK (RA-UK) priority setting partnership!
#AnSky #MedSky
https://buff.ly/3Zpr9kL
November 27, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Research priorities in #regionalanaesthesia identified by anaesthetists have been published, BUT the views of patients, carers & other healthcare professionals have not been considered.
Enter the Regional Anaesthesia UK (RA-UK) priority setting partnership!
#AnSky #MedSky
https://buff.ly/3Zpr9kL
Enter the Regional Anaesthesia UK (RA-UK) priority setting partnership!
#AnSky #MedSky
https://buff.ly/3Zpr9kL
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#NHSTalkingTherapies, the flagship psychotherapy service offered by the NHS, was heralded as a game changer when it launched in 2008. 16 years on, I’ve done some data digging to inspect its inner workings.
@nuffieldtrust.bsky.social @healthfoundation.bsky.social
1/7 🧵
@nuffieldtrust.bsky.social @healthfoundation.bsky.social
1/7 🧵
November 26, 2024 at 11:08 AM
#NHSTalkingTherapies, the flagship psychotherapy service offered by the NHS, was heralded as a game changer when it launched in 2008. 16 years on, I’ve done some data digging to inspect its inner workings.
@nuffieldtrust.bsky.social @healthfoundation.bsky.social
1/7 🧵
@nuffieldtrust.bsky.social @healthfoundation.bsky.social
1/7 🧵
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The 2025 Pacific Pain Forum will be held on April 4; attend in person in downtown Vancouver, BC or participate online. I am a member of the planning committee and I will be presenting again. I suggest registering early to secure your spot at: lnkd.in/g_mf-3Hn. I hope you can join us.
November 25, 2024 at 4:04 AM
The 2025 Pacific Pain Forum will be held on April 4; attend in person in downtown Vancouver, BC or participate online. I am a member of the planning committee and I will be presenting again. I suggest registering early to secure your spot at: lnkd.in/g_mf-3Hn. I hope you can join us.
Great ideas here!
Hi!👋
I made that silly, viral YouTube cartoon that helped 250,000 of you redesign your research poster.
#betterposter
v1 t.co/wyXhiP5CKl
v2 t.co/q1g4SsSrlS
I use science & design to improve your experience with scientific articles, posters, publishing — and beyond!🧑🚀
Mission:
youtu.be/WBjhxjWDiHw
I made that silly, viral YouTube cartoon that helped 250,000 of you redesign your research poster.
#betterposter
v1 t.co/wyXhiP5CKl
v2 t.co/q1g4SsSrlS
I use science & design to improve your experience with scientific articles, posters, publishing — and beyond!🧑🚀
Mission:
youtu.be/WBjhxjWDiHw
Let's Make Science User-Friendly | Mike Morrison
YouTube video by I/O Shaken & Stirred
youtu.be
November 25, 2024 at 6:02 AM
Great ideas here!
November 24, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Had a go at Bluesky users interested in pain research....
November 24, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Had a go at Bluesky users interested in pain research....
My starter pack of physiotherapists interested in pain. Let me know if I have missed anyone. It's my list so far...https://go.bsky.app/MBaVoNJ
November 24, 2024 at 5:35 PM
My starter pack of physiotherapists interested in pain. Let me know if I have missed anyone. It's my list so far...https://go.bsky.app/MBaVoNJ
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Reproducing my thread from the Other Place on our Lancet paper 'Long COVID - a clinical update'. Coauthors Manoj Sivan, Alice Perlowski, Janko Nikolich. 1/
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...?
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...?
Long COVID: a clinical update
Post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID) is generally defined as symptoms
persisting for 3 months or more after acute COVID-19. Long COVID can affect multiple
organ systems and lead to sever...
www.thelancet.com
November 24, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Reproducing my thread from the Other Place on our Lancet paper 'Long COVID - a clinical update'. Coauthors Manoj Sivan, Alice Perlowski, Janko Nikolich. 1/
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...?
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...?
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New open access paper in
@TheJournal_Pain
We make a Call to Action to the Pain Research community to make changes to enhance and ensure the trustworthiness of pain research sciencedirect.com/science/arti... . THREAD 1/17
@TheJournal_Pain
We make a Call to Action to the Pain Research community to make changes to enhance and ensure the trustworthiness of pain research sciencedirect.com/science/arti... . THREAD 1/17
Enhancing the trustworthiness of pain research: A call to action.
The personal, social and economic burden of chronic pain is enormous. Tremendous research efforts are being directed toward understanding, preventing,…
sciencedirect.com
November 24, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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Great paper. Inwardly breathing small sigh of relief that I did a realist synthesis and am planning NPT for WP2!
Loving this paper 'Rethinking barriers and enablers'. How many thousands of weak research studies have reduced complex change to 'identifying and addressing barriers and enablers'? Here's how to do better!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Rethinking Barriers and Enablers in Qualitative Health Research: Limitations, Alternatives, and Enhancements - Abby Haynes, Victoria Loblay, 2024
Explorations of barriers and enablers (or barriers and facilitators) to a desired health practice, implementation process, or intervention outcome have become s...
journals.sagepub.com
November 24, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Great paper. Inwardly breathing small sigh of relief that I did a realist synthesis and am planning NPT for WP2!
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The AERO study: A feasibility randomised controlled trial of individually tailored exercise adherence strategies based on a brief behavioural assessment for older people with musculoskeletal conditions
www.physiotherapyjournal.com/article/S003...
www.physiotherapyjournal.com/article/S003...
DEFINE_ME
www.physiotherapyjournal.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:42 PM
The AERO study: A feasibility randomised controlled trial of individually tailored exercise adherence strategies based on a brief behavioural assessment for older people with musculoskeletal conditions
www.physiotherapyjournal.com/article/S003...
www.physiotherapyjournal.com/article/S003...