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Yearly Archive: 2017
  • Human Joint Pain

    Major Pain Conference in Torquay

    September 22, 2017

    Pain Matrix is proud that one of our Specialist Pain Medicine Physicians Dr Jacqui Nash has been invited by the Faculty of Pain Medicine  at the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists,  to convene the annual scientific spring meeting in September 2017. Titled “Transcending pain: Ride the next wave”...

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  • Human Painful Joints

    How badly do we want to solve this $32bn dollar persistent pain problem?

    May 22, 2017

    Article by Dr Michael Vagg   This week is National Pain Week so it’s only fitting that I should climb onto the soapbox again in support of people with persistent pain, their employers, workmates, friends, and families. The economic burden of persistent pain in our country is enormous, and the...

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  • When business trumps evidence, dangerous things happen

    April 22, 2017

    Article br Dr Michael Vagg   Ketamine is a drug which was originally used in anaesthesia, but which is now more often used in managing pain. It acts upon a range of different neurotransmitter systems in the body and it’s not a drug you would expect an average primary care...

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  • Opioids may not be the most harmful pain drugs after all…

    March 22, 2017

    Article by Dr Michael Vagg   We have seen plenty of media reporting of the harm done by “overprescribing” of opioid drugs for chronic pain (I use the quotation marks because I challenge anyone to identify what the “right” level of opioid prescribing is) but perhaps this hype is misleading....

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  • Hope in a bottle: Use of natural medicine on the rise despite unproven alternative therapies

    February 22, 2017

    Article by Mandy Squires (Geelong Advertiser)   Featuring Dr Michael Vagg   As a Deakin University researcher, Dr Mel Thomson is well placed to sort science from snake oil. Twenty years of academia has given the mum of two the ability to find, read and understand complex scientific papers and...

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