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Nau mai, haere mai! This website is a learning resource that is primarily designed for Musculoskeletal Medicine training in New Zealand. It also aims to be useful for GPs, other doctors, and medical students. It is not written for patients but they are welcome to read the articles. Click on a body region on the skeleton or a portal below to get started.

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Featured Wiki Article for 1 October 2024

Medicinal Cannabis

The evidence does not support the use of medicinal cannabis in Musculoskeletal Medicine - it is not effective for pain and it may in fact lower pain thresholds. - Read More

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Featured Open Access Journal Article for 1 November 2024

Open-Label Placebo Injection for Chronic Back Pain With Functional Neuroimaging

JAMA Psychiatry

ABSTRACT - In this randomized clinical trial of 101 adults with chronic back pain, an open-label subcutaneous placebo (saline) injection led to significant improvements in pain intensity, mood, and sleep at 1 month posttreatment compared with usual care. The placebo treatment also led to reduced somatomotor activity and increased medial prefrontal activity during evoked back pain and to increased medial prefrontal-brainstem functional connectivity during spontaneous pain.

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“I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.”

— The Hippocratic Oath: Modern Version, Lasagna 1964