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Michael Ray
@michael-tame-pain.bsky.social
Clinician Scientist researching pain in the emergency department.
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My post-doc project has been IRB approved to begin enrollment:
From Acute to Chronic: Investigating Emergency Department Care and Pain Outcomes in Neck and Back Pain: PREVENT (Pain Recognition & Evaluation to Validate Effective Neck & back Treatment).

Read more here: osf.io/56wap/

?s welcomed!
Latest R grant submitted to NIH. It’s questionable what happens now given the administrative changes. I’m hopeful there’s at least a review with feedback. I’m looking to adapt SBIRT for acute pain scenarios, intervening for those who screen high risk for chronic pain. Unfamiliar? A 🧵
March 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Reposted by Michael Ray
It has been great writing this piece with @peterstilwell.bsky.social about the mind-body divide and why it is often misleading to speak of 'physical' vs. 'psychological' pain.
“Pain challenges us to think beyond the body versus mind and physical versus psychological, showing instead how deeply intertwined these realms are.” | buff.ly/KpQPYoU

Tap to read more from @sconinxphil.bsky.social and Peter Stilwell here.

#philsky #medsky
Pain destroys the mind-body problem | Sabrina Coninx and Peter Stilwell
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March 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
My post-doc project has been IRB approved to begin enrollment:
From Acute to Chronic: Investigating Emergency Department Care and Pain Outcomes in Neck and Back Pain: PREVENT (Pain Recognition & Evaluation to Validate Effective Neck & back Treatment).

Read more here: osf.io/56wap/

?s welcomed!
January 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The new year is here, and many people are contemplating change. Often, this involves doing something different in daily life; diet or physical activity. It’s much easier to think about change than implementing it. As humans, we get stuck in loops, our daily actions become automated and habitual.1/10
January 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Dr.Oz leading CMS seems like a way to not make #America healthy again.

www.bmj.com/content/349/...

“Approximately half of the recommendations have either no evidence or are contradicted by the best available evidence…The public should be skeptical about recommendations made on medical talk shows.”
Televised medical talk shows—what they recommend and the evidence to support their recommendations: a prospective observational study
Objective To determine the quality of health recommendations and claims made on popular medical talk shows. Design Prospective observational study. Setting Mainstream television media. Sources Inte...
www.bmj.com
November 21, 2024 at 3:49 AM
If you are a clinician, pain researcher, or patient advocate, can you comment below or send me a message? I’m working on validating a questionninare assessing patients’ attitudes and beliefs regarding neck pain. It would be great to get more insight on the questions prior to pilot testing. #pain
November 20, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Dr. Oz over CMS … did the @theonion.com take over our politics?! This can’t be reality.
November 19, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Sometimes I write.
The City
We are all someone and yet no one.
Sharing space within the same place.
Tethered together yet isolated forever.

professormichaelray.substack.com/p/the-city
The City
We are all someone and yet no one.
professormichaelray.substack.com
November 19, 2024 at 3:51 AM