Asaf (Klaf) Weisman
PhD candidate at Tel-Aviv University. I am a researcher of the spine and people experiencing pain. I am also an MSK Physiotherapist. Follow me for the neuroscience of pain, spine, and health issues.
Blog: painlosophy.wordpress.com
- A new blog about our recent three publications on the Nociceptive Apparatus Paradigm #painresearch #physio #neuroskyence painlosophy.wordpress.com/2025/12/06/t...
- 💥Interesting new study indicates that multilevel abnormalities in Lumbar MRI correlate with an inflammatory phenotype of low back pain. #painresearch #neuroskyence #physio Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- This new prospective study followed 108 individuals with acute low back pain. Their immune profiles predicted transition from acute to chronic low back pain in a sex- and age-specific manner with some pretty impressive AUCs. journals.lww.com/pain/abstrac... #neuroskyence #painresearch #physio
- Officially published💥 A reboot to the #pain field! The aphorism that “nociception is neither necessary nor sufficient for pain” has caused a lot of damage to patients and set back the field and should be discarded. #neuroskyence #painresearch #physio Free link: academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...
- Metabolic disorders and pathophysiologies have many detrimental effects and are associated not only with tendinopathies but also with chronic #pain and are highly likely to be causal for these. This new review finds that diabetes has crazy effect sizes for many types of tendinopathies #physio #pain
- Very important and useful clinical information on the average age of onset of autoimmune diseases. From: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #physio #painscience
- A new medical illustration I made per request. I wish I could just do those all day. #painscience #neuroskyence #physio 🛟🧪
- According to Betteridge's law of headlines, the answer to the titles question is: NO! The study found MICROSCOPIC effect sizes for the contribution of psychological factors in the persistence of shoulder pain! #physio #painscience 🧪🛟 journals.lww.com/clinicalpain...
- First phase 3 trial for the novel non-opioid drug Suzetrigine. It’s not placebo controlled and aimed to test the safety profile of the drug. I am not sure wheter this could be considered “well-tolerated” and “generally safe” #physio #painscience #neuroskyence 🧪🛟 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- New study finds evidence for neuroinflammation in the periphery of individuals after WHIPLASH. Very well conducted study! Sample size ✅ control group ✅ Sig. findings on MRI ✅ Sig. findings on blood tests ✅ Sig. findings on QST ✅ #physio #neuroskyence #painresearch 🧪🛟
- New study finds evidence for neuroinflammation in the periphery of individuals after WHIPLASH. Very well conducted study! Sample size ✅ control group ✅ Sig. findings on MRI ✅ Sig. findings on blood tests ✅ Sig. findings on QST ✅ #physio #painresearch #neuroskyence journals.lww.com/pain/Fulltex...
- Striking cases of neuro-immune interactions: Upper pic: Psoriasis vanished from right hand after shoulder dislocation with brachial plexus injury. Bottom pic: Four months later, as nerves began to recover, psoriasis returned. #neuroskyence #painresearch #physio 🧪🛟
- New study with combined 7 Tesla MRI imaging and PET scan finds altered structures of nerves and neuroinflammation in migraine patients. Vey robust design that includes a control group and same cases as right/left side dominant migraines as controls. #painresearch #neuroskyence #physio 🧪🛟
- FDA approves new pain killer- First non-opioid analgesic in decades targets sodium channels. #painresearch #physio #neuroskyence 🛟🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- New imaging technique published in Nature to image inflammation utilizes the protein CD-45 which is used only by white blood cells. Link: Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #painresearch #physio #neuroskyence 🛟🧪
- There is no such thing as “STRUCTURAL PAIN” and “non structural pain” etc. The plethora of unpleasant sensory experiences we humans use the word “pain” to describe them, are all the consequences of activation of our specialized appartus of nociception. #painresearch #physio #neuroskyence
- It should be obligatory for every med/life sci grad student to learn formal logic & reasoning. Too many published papers are poorly argued and make basic inferential errors. This small change would dramatically improve science #physio #painresearch #neuroskyence 🧪🛟
- 💥New publication from our lab with some important clinical nuggets. We followed 2 groups of patients with Lumbar Spinal Stenosis and leg pain, who decided to undergo surgery or to “wait and see” A 🧵 journals.lww.com/jaaos/abstra... #physio #painresearch #orthosky 🧪 🛟
- Instead of talking about the predatory nature of MDPI journals, can we talk about how UGLY their formatting is? It’s literally hurting my eyes reading their papers online and PDFs 😣 #painresearch 🧪
- 🤘🏻The study I have been waiting for 30 years! Only Scandinavians can pull this out let alone publish it in a Scandinavian pain journal 🤘🏻 #painscience #physio #painresearch #ignobel2025 www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
- Finalnd downgraded many MDPI and Frontiers journals in their quality grading. Good call for MDPI. As for Frontiers I am not really sure but tend to say its also a good call. 🧪 🛟 #physio #painresearch retractionwatch.com/2024/12/24/f...
- This paper is making the rounds on social media. I have been trying really hard to find and understand the point where this paper actually says something of novel significance and I failed miserably 🤷🏻♂️ #physio #neuroskyence #painresearch bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
- Today, in the stupid article title department... How is this nonsense acceptable? #painscience #painresearch #neuroscience
- Interesting new mutation identified in the SCN9A gene, which leads to nociceptive deficiency (not “insensitivity to pain” 🤦🏻♂️). This gene encodes for the Nav1.7 sodium gated channel. #painscience #painresearch #neuroscience pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39528285/
- Amazing! Deep thalamic brain stimulation helped mice and 2 human patients with partial spinal cord injury to regain the ability to walk! #medsky #physio 🧪 🛟 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- New study with shear wave elastography, shows patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain, have stiffer lumbar fascia snd muscles compared to controls. Good sample size and moderate to large effects! #painscience #physio #painresearch www.frontiersin.org/journals/bio...
- Took it a bit, but just had the first sex bot follow me here 🙄
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