David Poulter
@retlouping.bsky.social
Dislikes evidence based Ostriches
(An evidence based ostrich ignores evidence against whilst waiting for evidence of support.)
(An evidence based ostrich ignores evidence against whilst waiting for evidence of support.)
Latest blog post
Spondylolisthesis: It’s Not as Scary as You’ve Been Told
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Spondylolisthesis: It’s Not as Scary as You’ve Been Told
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November 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Latest blog post
Spondylolisthesis: It’s Not as Scary as You’ve Been Told
retlouping331888347.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/s...
Spondylolisthesis: It’s Not as Scary as You’ve Been Told
retlouping331888347.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/s...
“It works for me”
Welcome to the blackbox
Welcome to the blackbox
November 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“It works for me”
Welcome to the blackbox
Welcome to the blackbox
Is it time to stop “Painsplaining?”
Pain neuroscience education combined with any singular form of physical therapy intervention is not more effective than the single intervention itself: a systematic review www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Pain neuroscience education combined with any singular form of physical therapy intervention is not more effective than the single intervention itself: a systematic review www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Is it time to stop “Painsplaining?”
Pain neuroscience education combined with any singular form of physical therapy intervention is not more effective than the single intervention itself: a systematic review www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Pain neuroscience education combined with any singular form of physical therapy intervention is not more effective than the single intervention itself: a systematic review www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Is anybody listening
retlouping331888347.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/i...
A short insightful blog on “listening”
retlouping331888347.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/i...
A short insightful blog on “listening”
November 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Is anybody listening
retlouping331888347.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/i...
A short insightful blog on “listening”
retlouping331888347.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/i...
A short insightful blog on “listening”
Stop publishing nonsense.
My letter to the editor about “SIJ Dysfunction” (unpublished)
retlouping331888347.wordpress.com/2024/09/24/a...
New study
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My letter to the editor about “SIJ Dysfunction” (unpublished)
retlouping331888347.wordpress.com/2024/09/24/a...
New study
www.ftrdergisi.com/uploads/pdf/...
November 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Stop publishing nonsense.
My letter to the editor about “SIJ Dysfunction” (unpublished)
retlouping331888347.wordpress.com/2024/09/24/a...
New study
www.ftrdergisi.com/uploads/pdf/...
My letter to the editor about “SIJ Dysfunction” (unpublished)
retlouping331888347.wordpress.com/2024/09/24/a...
New study
www.ftrdergisi.com/uploads/pdf/...
Only you can answer what it would take for you to add he extra “S”
What would it take?
What would it take?
November 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Only you can answer what it would take for you to add he extra “S”
What would it take?
What would it take?
Evaluating Manual Therapy in Musculoskeletal Pain: Why Certain Trial Designs May Overestimate Effectiveness—A Scoping Review
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November 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Evaluating Manual Therapy in Musculoskeletal Pain: Why Certain Trial Designs May Overestimate Effectiveness—A Scoping Review
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Paradoxes weaken the International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain www.epain.org/journal/view...
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Paradoxes weaken the International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain www.epain.org/journal/view...
My latest blog written by AI (Grok) in 20 seconds.
A timely warning of AI use and abuse.
Preferred Directional Loading Strategy: A Proposed Refinement Over the Concept of Directional Preference in Musculoskeletal Pain Management
retlouping331888347.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
A timely warning of AI use and abuse.
Preferred Directional Loading Strategy: A Proposed Refinement Over the Concept of Directional Preference in Musculoskeletal Pain Management
retlouping331888347.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
My latest blog written by AI (Grok) in 20 seconds.
A timely warning of AI use and abuse.
Preferred Directional Loading Strategy: A Proposed Refinement Over the Concept of Directional Preference in Musculoskeletal Pain Management
retlouping331888347.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
A timely warning of AI use and abuse.
Preferred Directional Loading Strategy: A Proposed Refinement Over the Concept of Directional Preference in Musculoskeletal Pain Management
retlouping331888347.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
Work in progress
Person presenting with.....
Person living with.....
Person suffering from......
Differentiating between possible causes of this persons problem.......
Not patient, not frozen shoulder, not sore hip, not NSLBP, not knee OA....
PERSON focused
One ecosystem
Person presenting with.....
Person living with.....
Person suffering from......
Differentiating between possible causes of this persons problem.......
Not patient, not frozen shoulder, not sore hip, not NSLBP, not knee OA....
PERSON focused
One ecosystem
November 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Work in progress
Person presenting with.....
Person living with.....
Person suffering from......
Differentiating between possible causes of this persons problem.......
Not patient, not frozen shoulder, not sore hip, not NSLBP, not knee OA....
PERSON focused
One ecosystem
Person presenting with.....
Person living with.....
Person suffering from......
Differentiating between possible causes of this persons problem.......
Not patient, not frozen shoulder, not sore hip, not NSLBP, not knee OA....
PERSON focused
One ecosystem
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
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November 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
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Happy SI joint Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Happy SI joint Halloween
Stop patient blaming
October 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Stop patient blaming
Our paper is free open access. Please read share, and enjoy , thank you 🙏
Contextual effects in musculoskeletal pain: are we overlooking essential factors?
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Contextual effects in musculoskeletal pain: are we overlooking essential factors?
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
October 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Our paper is free open access. Please read share, and enjoy , thank you 🙏
Contextual effects in musculoskeletal pain: are we overlooking essential factors?
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Contextual effects in musculoskeletal pain: are we overlooking essential factors?
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
“Listen to learn about the person in pain, as much as the pain in the person”
October 6, 2025 at 5:29 AM
“Listen to learn about the person in pain, as much as the pain in the person”
Our paper is free open access. Please read share, and enjoy , thank you 🙏
Contextual effects in musculoskeletal pain: are we overlooking essential factors? www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Contextual effects in musculoskeletal pain: are we overlooking essential factors? www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
October 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Our paper is free open access. Please read share, and enjoy , thank you 🙏
Contextual effects in musculoskeletal pain: are we overlooking essential factors? www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Contextual effects in musculoskeletal pain: are we overlooking essential factors? www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Invent a problem, invent a test, invent a treatment, fix your test, voila! The state of health care across apps.
“Your wangle dangle is out & twisted. A few sessions of my TM wangle dangle therapy and your pain will be gone.”
Patient in future
“ I have wangle dangle syndrome”
“Your wangle dangle is out & twisted. A few sessions of my TM wangle dangle therapy and your pain will be gone.”
Patient in future
“ I have wangle dangle syndrome”
October 3, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Invent a problem, invent a test, invent a treatment, fix your test, voila! The state of health care across apps.
“Your wangle dangle is out & twisted. A few sessions of my TM wangle dangle therapy and your pain will be gone.”
Patient in future
“ I have wangle dangle syndrome”
“Your wangle dangle is out & twisted. A few sessions of my TM wangle dangle therapy and your pain will be gone.”
Patient in future
“ I have wangle dangle syndrome”
Satire, it the old “it works for me and my patients.”
September 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Satire, it the old “it works for me and my patients.”
The Broken Wing Sign: A New Clinical Test to Detect Gluteus Medius Pathology with and without Fatty Infiltration www.jbjs.org/reader.php?r...
September 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The Broken Wing Sign: A New Clinical Test to Detect Gluteus Medius Pathology with and without Fatty Infiltration www.jbjs.org/reader.php?r...
A friendly reminder that sitting on the loo searching on google is not “research” it “a search”
RESEARCH is hard and requires scientific rigour, discipline, time and dedication, unlike searching on google.
RESEARCH is hard and requires scientific rigour, discipline, time and dedication, unlike searching on google.
September 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
A friendly reminder that sitting on the loo searching on google is not “research” it “a search”
RESEARCH is hard and requires scientific rigour, discipline, time and dedication, unlike searching on google.
RESEARCH is hard and requires scientific rigour, discipline, time and dedication, unlike searching on google.
This article contains most of the research evidence on Modic 1 changes and infection association, from 2001 through 2024
www.necksolutions.com/modic-changes/
www.necksolutions.com/modic-changes/
September 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This article contains most of the research evidence on Modic 1 changes and infection association, from 2001 through 2024
www.necksolutions.com/modic-changes/
www.necksolutions.com/modic-changes/
Don't be a nocebo! Why healthcare organizations should value patients' expectations’
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
September 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Don't be a nocebo! Why healthcare organizations should value patients' expectations’
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Thanks to everyone who has downloaded or read our paper.
Contextual effects in musculoskeletal pain: are we overlooking essential factors?
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Contextual effects in musculoskeletal pain: are we overlooking essential factors?
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
September 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Thanks to everyone who has downloaded or read our paper.
Contextual effects in musculoskeletal pain: are we overlooking essential factors?
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Contextual effects in musculoskeletal pain: are we overlooking essential factors?
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Our paper is free open access. Please read share, and enjoy , thank you 🙏
Contextual effects in musculoskeletal pain: are we overlooking essential factors?
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Contextual effects in musculoskeletal pain: are we overlooking essential factors?
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
September 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Our paper is free open access. Please read share, and enjoy , thank you 🙏
Contextual effects in musculoskeletal pain: are we overlooking essential factors?
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Contextual effects in musculoskeletal pain: are we overlooking essential factors?
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
File under “your scan is not necessarily your destiny”
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The associations between magnetic resonance imaging findings and low back pain: A 10-year longitudinal analysis
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The associations between magnetic resonance imaging findings and low back pain: A 10-year longitudinal analysis
September 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
File under “your scan is not necessarily your destiny”
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The associations between magnetic resonance imaging findings and low back pain: A 10-year longitudinal analysis
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The associations between magnetic resonance imaging findings and low back pain: A 10-year longitudinal analysis