The TKEX blog

Research translation, clinical reasoning and the questions still open, written for allied health clinicians.

What you say to a patient in pain is not neutral

How clinicians' words can influence what patients expect, understand and do.

Luke Postlethwaite

A practical account of common low-value care and why it persists.

Brendan Mouatt

Where deep-core training came from and what the evidence now suggests.

Brendan Mouatt

Where ideas about ideal posture came from and what current research suggests.

Luke Postlethwaite

Last week I had a patient present with debilitating right shoulder pain, diagnosed as a partial rotator cuff tear 8 years ago via ultrasound.

Brendan Mouatt

Why common explanations of pain can miss important parts of the experience.

Luke Postlethwaite

Screening for depression in persisting pain patients has negligible effects on depression at six-month follow-up.

Brendan Mouatt

A closer look at the ongoing hands-on and hands-off debate.

Brendan Mouatt

A review of the research on fear avoidance, lifting advice and low back pain, from November 2019.

Brendan Mouatt

Sam offers an epistemological account of pain that is worth reading carefully.

Sam Rollison