Emily Walker
emwalkerexphys.bsky.social
Emily Walker
@emwalkerexphys.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at UNSW and NeuRA | Conducting a process evaluation of a CLBP clinical trial | Passionate about complex systems, equity, social and political determinants, qualitative research, underrepresented populations and intersectionality 📚
World Physio Congress 2025 highlights:
-Seeing physios in diverse settings, esp crisis/emergency settings
-Seeing the knowledge from physios in Gaza on trauma-informed care
-Emphasis on multi-level determinants affecting health

Great to connect with clinicians from the Critical Physio Network 💪
June 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Tackling health inequities requires widening our lens to understand how jobs, working conditions, education, housing, social inclusion & even political power influence individual & community health.

One way to understand what Marmot calls the “causes of the causes” is to ask new questions:
April 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Australian Pain Society Conference done! #AusPainSoc

Presented on the mechanisms of patient-led goal setting & pain science education ✅

Received updates on IASP 2025 Global Year through Australian lens (ISSHOOS published soon: www.isshoos.org)

Informative work at the 'rural realities' workshop
April 17, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Figure 3. Potential avenues to apply a multilevel conceptualization of social aspects of pain to advance equitable pain prevention and management.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38897311/
April 4, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Figure 1. Examples of contextual intersectional health inequities.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38107758/
April 3, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I had the pleasure of presenting at the New Zealand Pain Society Conference this week 😍

I spoke about the complexities of clinical practice when providing evidence-based practice to people with chronic low back pain & linked them to the conference theme of “equitable outcomes in pain care”
March 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
When someone receives treatment for a MSK pain condition - the total treatment effect encompasses the specific effect of the treatment, contextual effects, and non-specific effects.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
What determinants play a key role in the lived experience of persistent pain and recovery?

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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 Synthesising 195 Qualitative Studies”

academic.oup.com/painmedicine...
January 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
It often takes me a few goes to understand words like ontology, epistemology, positivist and constructivist…The breakdown in the paper is gold!

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34457699/
January 1, 2025 at 8:23 AM