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Neen suffers from chronic pain due to mixed connective tissue disease, with features of rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, scleroderma and myositis.

In this discussion, she talks about some of her frustrations when seeking help from physiotherapists.

Neen feels that Explain Pain and Pain Neuroscience Education type approaches have been harmful, rather than helpful, to her and others with secondary pain. She calls on physiotherapists to carefully listen to their patients and to seriously consider whether PNE will be welcome or helpful in each individual case.

Evie on twitter: @onlinephysios https://twitter.com/OnlinePhysios

Neen on twitter: @ArthriticChick https://twitter.com/ArthriticChick

Asaf Weisman is a clinical physiotherapist currently doing a PhD in artificial intelligence and computer vision. He has a particular interest in nociception and pain theory.

Evie and Asaf had this discussion following an interview with Lorimer Moseley by Jack Chew on The Physio Matters Podcast. You can watch that interview here https://youtu.be/xUBA7qQJ6vk

Jo Baxter is a physiotherapist and member of the "Physios Giving Well" community - a group of physios who donate monthly to GiveWell's top rated,  most effective and evidence-based charities.

Twitter: @onlinephysios

About Physios Giving Well: https://physiosonline.co.uk/2022/05/why-were-giving-well/

Sue Julians is physiotherapist who has written a book about her experiences of Covid lockdown and the effects it had on her business and family. Sue is Director and Practice Principal at Barbican Physio in London.

Dr. Akhil Bansal is a doctor who set up the effective altruism-inspired organisation "High Impact Medicine" (https://www.highimpactmedicine.org/). Their aim is "bringing together medics who want to have a wide reaching positive impact". He is currently working as a research analyst for Charity Entrepreneurship.

Links and resources: 

HI-Med https://www.highimpactmedicine.org/: "High Impact Medicine, Hi-Med, is a new movement bringing together medical students and doctors to learn more about all the ways medics can help as many people as possible in their careers and engage with opportunities to have a wide-reaching positive impact within medicine".

The Physios Giving Well fledgling community: https://physiosonline.co.uk/2022/05/why-were-giving-well/ 

GiveWell - How much does it cost to save a life? https://www.givewell.org/cost-to-save-a-life 

Akhil's article on the Effective Altruism Forum: "High Impact Medicine, 6 months later - Update & Key Lessons"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/TapN3wYhBJPFNBiGN/high-impact-medicine-6-months-later-update-and-key-lessons 

Book Recommendations (not EA-related):

To learn more about High Impact Medicine or join their community, go to highimpactmedicine.org

To learn more about Physios Giving Well and join our community, go to https://physiosonline.co.uk/2022/05/why-were-giving-well/ or find us on twitter @onlinephysios and say something like "I'm in" :)

Tom Jesson is the author of a popular book "Sciatica", and is

Physios Giving Well is a community of physios who donate to GiveWell's Maximum Impact Fund and promote the principles of Effective Altruism. JOIN US! 

See also:

effectivealtruism.org

https://physiosonline.co.uk/2022/05/why-were-giving-well/

Marcus Daniell is a professional tennis player and Olympic medallist, whose organisation "High Impact Athletes" connects athletes with the most effective, evidence-based charities in the world

In this chat Evie & Marcus discuss the topic of Effective Altruism and the inspiration behind Marcus's decision to set up High Impact Athletes.

1:20 How Marcus got involved with the effective altruism movement

"It just blew my mind how much sense it made"

3:23 "High Impact Athletes is the vehicle that I've created to try to be the best advocate for EA ideas as possible"

4:00 The significance of GiveWell

"What GiveWell offers us is the most certainty we can possibly have in this space that our dollar is doing exactly what it should".

6:33 Confidence in GiveWell's process including their transparency about making mistakes, and the openness to criticism & new evidence in the EA community generally.

7:30 "If I can donate these amounts of money and it doesn't affect my quality of life or my happiness, then I'm not losing anything really, but that amount of money can be life-saving or life-changing for so many people or animals in the world"

9:58 Peter Singer's "Shallow Pond" thought experiment had Evie feeling pretty bad for a while there. Delighted with the recent focus on giving as an amazing opportunity, rather than a moral obligation (even if it is really a moral obligation)

11:30 The problem of relying on empathy to tell us how to do good. An example might be that vastly more money is donated to pet shelters than to organisations working to improve the lives of factory farm animals.

15:20 Marcus' decision to be vegetarian while at a sushi bar in Japan

17:00 Evie was a bit hazy on the details but got the gist of the scanning eggs example right. More about chick culling here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/can-new-technologies-eliminate-grim-practice-of-chick-culling-180977263/

20:30 Evie & Marcus' views on Longtermism.

The podcast episode mentioned by Marcus: https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/alexander-berger-improving-global-health-wellbeing-clear-direct-ways/

More about Longtermism here https://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/longtermism

23:50 An appeal to Messi, Neymar, The Williams Sisters, Lewis Hamilton, and whichever other athletes Evie can name (i.e. the very famous ones) to check out High Impact Athletes! https://highimpactathletes.org/

See the blogpost at https://physiosonline.co.uk/2022/05/high-impact-athletes-with-pro-tennis-player-marcus-daniell/

Lee Schneider is a PhD candidate studying pain and predictive processing at the University of Notre Dame in Perth, Australia.  

This conversation was inspired by my earlier chat with Asaf Weisman, in one of the previous podcasts or available to view here https://youtu.be/j_0di-4Vaw4.  

In this discussion, we talk about Lee's agreements and disagreements with Asaf's perspective, the debate about whether pain is a sensation or a perception, the predictive processing model, and many other topics.  The conversation was a lot of fun and we rambled all over the place, so there are some jarring cuts/edits in some places. Many thanks Lee. 

For notes and timestamps see the video at https://physiosonline.co.uk/2022/04/a-conversation-about-pain/

Evie from PhysiosOnline speaks with Asaf Weisman, pain researcher at Tel-Aviv University. We discuss some of Asaf's reflections around the subject of pain and pain science, including: