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Michael Ray

@michaelraydc.bsky.social
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Clinician Scientist researching pain in the emergency department.

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The Journal of Pain @thejournalofpain.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Original: Dr. @michaelraydc.bsky.social examined temporal trends, a complementary prevalence-burden framework, and multilevel correlates of chronic pain and high-impact chronic pain. FULL: www.jpain.org/article/S152...
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Prevalence, burden, and factors associated with chronic pain and high-impact chronic pain in U.S. Adults, 2019–2023
Given chronic pain remains a major public health concern and focus of national prevention and management objectives, this study examined temporal trends, a complementary prevalence-burden framework,…
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Michael Ray @michaelraydc.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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 🧵
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Sabrina Coninx @sconinxphil.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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.
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Michael Ray @michaelraydc.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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!
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Michael Ray @michaelraydc.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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
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Michael Ray @michaelraydc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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.”
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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...
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Michael Ray @michaelraydc.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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
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Michael Ray @michaelraydc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Dr. Oz over CMS … did the @theonion.com take over our politics?! This can’t be reality.
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Michael Ray @michaelraydc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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
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The City
We are all someone and yet no one.
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