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- Oh, the Pain! 3 new studies from the Journal of Pain
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Limp! Knee pain is common and often stubborn, and yet few professionals know the recent research. This blog pumps out state-of-the-art treatment tips and tricks and science news about knee pain, as well as some shin splints and plantar fasciitis material — basically injuries from the knee down. RationalMusclePain.info is updated quite frequently.
Beam up to the mothership: SaveYourself.ca
This blog is a small outpost of a much larger website, SaveYourself.ca, which is devoted to ethical health science education about many kinds of pain problems. I believe in compassionate, humourous, rational health care and constantly encourage my readers to ask whether expensive therapies really work.
Author bio
I am Paul Ingraham, a Canadian science journalist and retired Registered Massage Therapist. I have been up to my eyeballs in the science of pain problems since about 1997 and have written several books and hundreds of articles. I am a libertarian atheist, a science and technology junkie, and jolly curmudgeon. I have a beautiful wife, a beautiful cat, and a nasty habit of getting injured playing the absurdly intense Frisbee sport “ultimate,” which helps me relate to my injured readers.