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Posts by Dr Andrea Furlan

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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

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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

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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

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The Gut–Brain Axis: Why Constipation May Increase Chronic Pain
The Gut–Brain Axis: Why Constipation May Increase Chronic Pain YouTube video by Dr. Andrea Furlan

New video posted today: The link between #constipation and #chronicPain

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⚡Book Give Away Today 😀 YouTube video by Dr. Andrea Furlan

Book Give Away 😁
Jan 1 2026 at 4 pm ET

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Thank you to all my friends who made 2025 a special year!

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The TAPMI team came to visit us today! And they brought 🍪 cookies. Thank you, and Happy Holidays to you all🎄🕎🎉🎊

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Chronic Pain: How can we support people who live with it? - Part 1 Podcast Episode · Reflections · 2025-11-28 · 28m

Listen to my interview to this podcast: Reflexions- a voice for Canadians with Disabilities

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@AccessibleMedia

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Enjoy the Holidays Without Triggering a Pain Flare
Enjoy the Holidays Without Triggering a Pain Flare YouTube video by Dr. Andrea Furlan

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Get 25%OFF on this Exercise Wall Poster www.DoctorAndreaFurlan.store

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Exercises to STRENGTHEN your KNEES at Home
Exercises to STRENGTHEN your KNEES at Home YouTube video by Dr. Andrea Furlan

🎥 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

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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

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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

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

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

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Putting the Pieces Together | 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

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The FLU campaign started at my hospital @uhn.ca

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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

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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...

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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 ...

For one of my pain modulation „bibles“ that also includes information on the amygdala-mPFC-PAG circuitry see:

journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

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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

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You are not alone!
You are not alone! YouTube video by Dr. Andrea Furlan

You are not alone!
#ChronicPain

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PNAS 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...

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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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!💥

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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.

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What we know about the new painkiller suzetrigine
What we know about the new painkiller suzetrigine YouTube video by CBC News

Watch my interview on @cbcnews-rss.bsky.social about the new non-opioid painkiller #suzetrigine

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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.

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.'

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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...

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.

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An action plan for #pain in #Canada 🇨🇦

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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

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