Tasha Parman, PT
@tp-pt.bsky.social
PT, post doc, 🐕 and 👦🏼 mom, basketball fan, pain nerd, 🏳️🌈
📣EVENT ALERT! Join us next Monday, July 7th at 6:30pm PT at Burke-Gilman Brewing Co. in Seattle, WA for a conversation on how science works with @carlbergstrom.com (UW Biology) and Kevin Gross (NCSU Statistics) - and you! Find the event here & register➡️ zurl.co/nEQAN @burkebrewing.bsky.social
Viewpoint in JAMA details the consequences of the proposed cuts to NIH: ❌15% reduction in new therapies ❌reduction in life expectancy by 83M life years in the US = $8.2T ❌loss of $51B in economic output annually All to save $20B annually. The math ain't mathin.' jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe
This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...
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Grateful for the opportunities I’ve had with my mentor in my postdoc! We are thinking about pain and function differently and hoping this work can inform future clinical practice. Thank you @seanrundell.bsky.social 🤓
Sean Rundell@seanrundell.bsky.social · last yr.Excited this is finally published. #Pain characteristics including bothersome pain, activity-limiting pain, greater number of pain sites, and more frequent pain medication consistently associated with lower & declining physical capacity over 6 years in older adults. journals.lww.com/clinicalpain...
Relationships beteen fear of movement and physical activity across conditions is the subject of this new meta-analysis: academic.oup.com/ptj/advance-... #PhysioSky #PTSky
Relationship between Fear of Movement and Physical Activity in Patients with Cardiac, Rheumatologic, Neurologic, Pulmonary, or Pain Conditions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
AbstractObjective. Physical activity contributes to the primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of multiple diseases. However, in some patients, fear o
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Register for tomorrow’s 14 May webinar: “Bridging Gaps in Endometriosis Pain Management.” Engage with leading scientists, clinicians, physiotherapists, psychologists, and pain specialists from around the world on this complex chronic pain condition. bit.ly/3ELaK2A
I was excited to hear about a new behavioral treatment for chronic pain developed by researchers in Australia -- dialectical behavior therapy adapted to chronic pain. Thanks to @sutherlandphd.bsky.social for covering this development.
Online Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for Emotion Dysregulation in Chronic Pain
This randomized clinical trial evaluates the efficacy of a hybrid self-directed and therapist-guided therapy for emotional dysregulation in adults with chronic pain.
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Pitt Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine@pittanesthesiology.bsky.social · last yr.Benedict Alter, MD, PhD, in @newscientist.com: "At any given pain intensity, if you had better emotional regulation, people’s overall lives would be better: less suffering, less functional impairment." www.newscientist.com/article/2479...
What's happening with these grants is much more complicated and mostly unknown. None of the NIH have been officially cancelled. The NIH was just ordered to stop paying. They got the Unis to enforce silence on their own campuses because they thought they were "negotiating" and cld get the funds back.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · last yr.Conspiracy of Silence: How Trump is Covertly Strangling Billions in Disease Cure Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/consp...
On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n
Here’s just the most recent of the many NCCIH studies of #pain (from colleague @alexchesler.bsky.social published last week in Nature). Nearly 50% of NCCIH funding goes to studying pain, with a focus on nonpharmacological treatments and mechanisms. The proposed budget eliminates NCCIH.
Alex Chesler@alexchesler.bsky.social · last yr.co-author @dimacd.bsky.social pointed out that the link was truncated in my post. Hope this works: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
While I know next to nothing about the DRG, it was fun to listen to the work done by @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social and collaborators. Super important work! Also appreciated his hopeful messages for the future, as I and others have been short on hope recently. #usasp2025
Don’t miss our symposium today 5/1 11:45 Caribbean Room at #usasp2025 - Pain Research Enters the Age of Big Data - we want to share our data with you!
Really interesting talks regarding sleep and pain at #usasp2025. Shout out to Dr. Tham from Seattle Children’s Hospital. @usasp.bsky.social
How will you use A2CPS data to answer questions about pain, health and disease? Baseline data available now. More at a2cps.org/researchers/
New research links fibromyalgia pain to the gut microbiome. Transplanting healthy gut bacteria reduced pain in mice—and in a small clinical trial, improved symptoms in women. @karapedsgastrodoc.bsky.social @nyupainresearch.bsky.social www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
The gut microbiota promotes pain in fibromyalgia
Cai et al. revealed that transplanting gut microbiota from women with fibromyalgia—a chronic widespread pain condition of unknown etiology—into mice induces pain. It also induces phenotypes commonly o...
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Eugenics is fake science. But it’s creeping back into public discourse—through political rhetoric, bad policy, & scientific silence. We’re seeing this pseudoscience rebrand itself once again as legitimate. We must call it what it is—& stop it before it spreads further. We’ve seen where this leads.
Nature@nature.com · last yr.Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc
DOGE appears to have ordered a 50% cut in the budget of the National Science Foundation, leading its director, appointed by Trump in his first term, to resign. www.science.org/content/arti...
Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy
“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020
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An example of what we in the NIH Intramural program can accomplish. Excited to share our latest paper in close collaboration with Nick Ryba's group. We examined how inflammation transforms representation in somatosensory neurons to cause pain. Lots of surprises here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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📣 We’d love to hear from anyone who has used or considered using the Equity Check feature on our website to develop their #impsci research questions! 📣 ➡️ What was most helpful? ➡️ What could we do better? ➡️ What did we miss?
ImpSci @ UW@impsciuw.bsky.social · last yr.Hi #impsci friends! Last fall we re-launched our website with a fresh design and new features like the Equity Check for each step on the Research Pathway. Have you used this feature? Any feedback for us? To explore, begin at Step 1: bit.ly/2VPyJEu. Imgs show Equity Checks for Steps 1 & 2 (of 8):
🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨 You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone. Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise. Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️
Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · last yr.@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx
Federal funding for the Women’s Health Initiative, which as one of the largest research projects in women’s health has shaped treatment of menopause, osteoporosis, and nutrition, will stop in September.
Women’s Health Initiative, known for hormone therapy trials, to lose federal funding
The Women's Health Initiative, the enormous study that shaped treatment of menopause and other conditions, is on the verge of shutting down.
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My story about @kevinh-phd.bsky.social, nutrition and metabolism scientist at N.I.H., who felt compelled to take early retirement after experiencing censorship of his work under the new administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...
Leading Nutrition Scientist Departs N.I.H., Citing Censorship (Gift Article)
Kevin Hall said his work on ultraprocessed foods has been “hobbled” under the Trump administration. Scientists have been raising such concerns for months.
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#PTJournal editorial board members will help host a @health.nationalacademies.org workshop on #ChronicPain April 17-18: Topics include: - Pain identification strategies - Treatment & Management - Outcomes - Disability Determinations www.nationalacademies.org/event/43975_...
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US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18. Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky
US Applicant Week
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Bravo to colleagues at @uwsph.bsky.social for sharing their stories in @newyorker.com to highlight the negative human and economic impacts of the reckless, indiscriminate, wasteful, and partisan cancellation of important funding for science: www.newyorker.com/news/deep-st...
“I Am Seeing My Community of Researchers Decimated”
Across the country, the Trump Administration’s assault on public institutions and its cuts to government funding are forcing scientists to abandon their work and the patients who benefit from it.
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Amid the Trump admin's dismantling of the US scientific ecosystem, Nobel Prize-winner @ardemp.bskyverified.social writes on @cnn.com: "I’ve already been approached with an offer to relocate my lab to China, complete with a promise of 20 years of stable research funding." www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN
Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...
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