Emily Walker @emwalkerexphys.bsky.social · 07/06/2025World 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 💪 010
Emily Walker @emwalkerexphys.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Tackling 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: 110
Emily Walker @emwalkerexphys.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Australian 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 030
Emily Walker @emwalkerexphys.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Figure 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/ 030
Emily Walker @emwalkerexphys.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Figure 1. Examples of contextual intersectional health inequities. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38107758/ 040
Emily Walker @emwalkerexphys.bsky.social · 22/03/2025I 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” 3101
Emily Walker @emwalkerexphys.bsky.social · 11/03/2025When 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... 020
Emily Walker @emwalkerexphys.bsky.social · 04/03/2025What determinants play a key role in the lived experience of persistent pain and recovery? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 042
Emily Walker @emwalkerexphys.bsky.social · 19/01/20254 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... 062
Emily Walker @emwalkerexphys.bsky.social · 01/01/2025It 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/ 5185