Building on my PREVENT study, I look to validate a predictive model for screening related to pain beliefs, fear of movement, and catastrophic thinking.

Screening. Brief Intervention, & Referral for Treatment was established and validated for substance use issues and later for mental health.

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 🧵

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/

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4) find YOUR thing - just because it’s poplar to go to XFit doesn’t mean that’s what you just do too. Maybe you try it and don’t like it, that’s ok. Try something else. Maybe your thing is with others and maybe it isn’t, that’s ok too.

3) make it fit your life - new goals do not mean deprioritizing all other aspects of life. Yes, something may need to be reduced to create more time and maybe that’s a good thing (e.g., sitting for long periods for screen time)

2) make it fit your current abilities - if we’ve not been barbell back squatting, then starting with sit to stands to assess abilities makes a lot of sense

These are my usual recommendations:
1) start small - it’s even ok if it initially feels somewhat easy.

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