RESEARCHERS EARN SPOT IN THE LANCET As one of the most respected medical journals in the world, every researcher dreams of being published in The Lancet.
So when Dr Karin Aubrey and Professor Paul Glare got the call telling them their piece on managing chronic pain after surgery would appear, they were understandably elated. Their paper: “Transition from acute to chronic pain after surgery” appears as part of a three-paper series in Volume 393 of The Lancet. The pair is based at Royal North Shore Hospital and part of the Pain Management Research Institute. Karin said she hoped the paper would continue to highlight the plight of those suffering from chronic pain. “It is a prevalent and complex disease that needs continuing research support to understand how and why it occurs, to develop new treatment strategies and to identify and treat current patients as well as possible,” she said.
Professor Paul Glare and Dr Karin Aubrey
TEXT MESSAGES AIDING IN RECOVERY: NEW STUDY Do you have back pain? Researchers from Kolling are
The study will involve delivery lifestyle-based self-management text messages for two weeks.” Researchers are hoping te study will lead on to a larger trial, which they are crowdraising funds for.
For more information, visit https://crowdfunding.sydney.edu. au/project/14648. To take part the study email text4myback.study@sydney.edu. au
looking for people with back pain who visited the pharmacy in the previous two weeks who are willing to participate in a study. Institute of Bone and Joint Research’s PHD student Caroline Fritsch said the study was looking at whether sending text messages on self- management for pain sufferers aided in recovery. “The TEXT4myBACK study is a text message intervention for people with back pain,” Carolina said. “We are currently doing the pilot study and recruiting adult patients with low back pain.
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