For the 5th year, I have been voted Toronto’s Top Pain Mangement Doctor. Thank you to all doctors who voted for me. Post City Magazines #TorontoTopDoctors
Dr Andrea Furlan
@andreafurlan.bsky.social
I'm a physician, scientist, teacher, YouTuber and author. I try to help the person that has chronic pain, not just the pain they have (opinions my own)🇨🇦🇧🇷
For nearly 30 years, Pauline experienced chronic pain. Her brain was sending faulty signals from an injury that had long healed. Pain Reprocessing Therapy with UHN's Rehabilitation Pain Service helped retrain her nervous system. Read more at: https://bit.ly/4pVsaLQ
Chronic pain affects 1 in 5 Canadians. ECHO Pain is a medical education program designed to equip clinicians with the skills and support needed to provide safer, more effective care. ➡️ @kiteuhn.bsky.social researchers review 10 years of its impact: www.uhnresearch.ca/news/echos-b... #ChronicPain
Book Give Away 😁 Jan 1 2026 at 4 pm ET www.youtube.com/live/jUXSFwp...
⚡Book Give Away Today 😀
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Thank you to all my friends who made 2025 a special year!
The TAPMI team came to visit us today! And they brought 🍪 cookies. Thank you, and Happy Holidays to you all🎄🕎🎉🎊
Listen to my interview to this podcast: Reflexions- a voice for Canadians with Disabilities podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/r... @AccessibleMedia
Chronic Pain: How can we support people who live with it? - Part 1
Podcast Episode · Reflections · 2025-11-28 · 28m
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🎥 New video posted today 👉🏻Knee Conditioning Exercises - Decrease risk of falls - Reduce Pain - Improve balance - Restore Range of Motion 👉🏻 youtu.be/eN_Tx-NJSo4 #exercises #Knee #Arthritis #Fallsrisk
Exercises to STRENGTHEN your KNEES at Home
YouTube video by Dr. Andrea Furlan
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From November 2 to 8, it’s National Pain Awareness Week. A week to shed light on the reality of chronic pain and the people dedicated to understanding and addressing it. Follow #NPAW2025 to stay tuned! #PrioritizePain @paincanada.bsky.social @painbc.bsky.social
Today marks the beginning of Pain Awareness Week For those of us with #fibromyalgia, this week is deeply personal. It’s not “just pain” it’s fatigue, brain fog & the daily fight with an invisible illness. Let’s raise awareness & compassion. 💜 #NPAW2025 #FAC @pain_canada
I'll be LIVE at the Panel "Helping You To Help Yourself" Tuesday Nov 4, 2025 12 noon PST - 3pm EST Register to "Putting the Pieces Together" brought to you by @paincanada.bsky.social www.paincanada.ca/events/putti... #NationalPainAwarenessWeek2025 #NPAW2025 #PrioritizePain
Putting the Pieces Together | Pain Canada
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Why Does Pain Feel So Different? Follow me to learn more about: #ChronicPain #Nociceptive #Neuropathic #Nociplastic #neuroplastic #TMS #PainNeuroscience #PainNeuroscienceEducation #PNE #PRT #Neuroplasticity #PainEducation #PainScience
Dear Bsky Friends, breakthrough: finally a treatment that works for patients with chronic #pain following #whiplash! Cost-effective treatment + reduced disability & symptoms immediately after treatment + at 1y follow-up. Open access: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
For one of my pain modulation „bibles“ that also includes information on the amygdala-mPFC-PAG circuitry see: journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
Cellular Circuits in the Brain and Their Modulation in Acute and Chronic Pain | Physiological Reviews | American Physiological Society
Chronic, pathological pain remains a global health problem and a challenge to basic and clinical sciences. A major obstacle to preventing, treating, or reverting chronic pain has been that the nature ...
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Hope you are enjoying summer activities. Some tips for Gardening with #Chronic Pain - Warm up first - Use a wheelbarrow - Lift with your legs @peoplepainnetwork.bsky.social Resource @andreafurlan.bsky.social www.doctorandreafurlan.com/book
We can’t deny it: there is emotional pain. We need better treatments that address the emotional and motivational components of pain. Thalamic CGRP neurons define a spinothalamic pathway for affective pain www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Breaking #chronicpain news! 📺 Watch Global News Montréal at 1730 or @globalnews.ca National at 1830, for interviews by reporter Felicia Parrillo ... Featuring @evp82.bsky.social & Dr. Mark Ware, & me - as a chronic pain patient & advocate - about why these pain research results matter!💥
Étienne Vachon-Presseau@evp82.bsky.social · last yr.Our new @NatureHumBehav paper shows why we need a holistic pain biomarker framework. ML on blood tests, brain/bone imaging & genetics predicts clinical diagnoses but falls short on subjective pain. Adding psychosocial (mood, sleep, stress) boosts both. shorturl.at/vxxeO
In patients with knee osteoarthritis and overweight or obesity, metformin, 2000 mg/d, for 6 months had a moderate and statistically significant effect on knee pain reduction compared with placebo. ja.ma/43TzAae #MedSky
Watch my interview on @cbcnews-rss.bsky.social about the new non-opioid painkiller #suzetrigine youtube.com/watch?v=KfJX...
What we know about the new painkiller suzetrigine
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The Scientist: 'Immune Markers Help Identify Subgroups of ME/CFS Patients' 'Proteins involved in neuroinflammation found in the cerebrospinal fluid could help researchers better diagnose and treat chronic fatigue syndrome.' www.the-scientist.com/profiling-im...
Immune Markers Help Identify Subgroups of ME/CFS Patients
Proteins involved in neuroinflammation found in the cerebrospinal fluid could help researchers better diagnose and treat chronic fatigue syndrome.
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97% of asymptomatic knees had 'abnormality' on MRI. 115 sedentary adults. 78% were 40 or older, median age 44 years (range 25-73). Mean KOOS was 90 or greater all items. Meniscal tears, cartilage & bone marrow lesions of PF joint most common. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Prevalence of abnormal findings in 230 knees of asymptomatic adults using 3.0 T MRI - Skeletal Radiology
Objective To identify abnormalities in asymptomatic sedentary individuals using 3.0 Tesla high-resolution MRI. Materials and methods The cohort comprised of 230 knees of 115 uninjured sedentary adults...
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How do you treat pain without defaulting to opioids? In this story, #TemertyMed scientists talk about personalized approaches to treating pain, and why genetics and brain biomarkers may be important considerations. bit.ly/45zbBP4
"An abundance of Gardnerella vaginalis was linked to poor #OralHealth scores, whereas abundance of Lancefieldella (genus) and Mycoplasma salivarium were linked to #migraine.": buff.ly/MeOJPim via @medscape.com #pathogens #ChronicPain #MedSky
Poor Oral Health Linked to Migraine, Chronic Pain in Women
Imbalances in oral microbiota and poor oral health are associated with increased migraines and body pain in women with central sensitization disorders, a new study shows.
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University makes 'ground-breaking' discovery offering hope for #chronicpain sufferers Researchers hope the breakthrough will lead to new treatments for conditions such as #fibromyalgia and #rheumatoid #arthritis news.stv.tv/north/aberde...
University makes 'ground-breaking' discovery offering hope for chronic pain sufferers
Researchers hope the breakthrough will lead to new treatments for conditions such as fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis.
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