It is tempting to blindly trust research papers, but how reliable are they in fact? In this episode our ATW students and physiotherapists Janina, Melanie and Jule examine the challenges of designing and undertaking reliable
clinical studies.
Source:
Grenier, J. P., Thiel, A. (2025). Evaluating Manual Therapy in
Musculoskeletal Pain: Why Certain Trial Designs May Overestimate Effectiveness - A Scoping Review. European Journal of Pain . https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.70150

S4 E6 You rethink Pain
Pain: we know it – we feel it – but do we truly understand it? Tom Frankenstein, from the University of Lübeck, aims to answer this question. During the research symposium, he spoke about spatial summation of pain, a hitherto unresearched topic. We had the privilege of listening to the session and we'd like to give you a quick overview of this phenomenon.

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If you'd like to do some background reading, here are a few references:
1. Frankenstein, T., Szikszay, T. M., Coghill, R. C., Luedtke, K. & Adamczyk, W. M. (2025). Wird die räumliche Summierung von Schmerzen durch die empfundene Größe der schmerzhaften Oberfläche geprägt? SPECTILE. Physioscience, 21(S 02), S7. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0045-1811290
2. Adamczyk, W. M., Berendt, N., Trillenberg, P., Hanssen, J., Poehlmann, J., Kapitza, C., Luebke, L., Luedtke, K., Brüggemann, N. & Szikszay, T. M. (2025). Disrupted spatial but not temporal aspects of nociceptive processing determine painful polyneuropathies. Pain, 166(11), e623–e634. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003666
3. Adamczyk, W. M., Ramu, V., Jackson, C., Schulze, G., Goldschneider, K. R., Kashikar-Zuck, S., King, C. D., & Coghill, R. C. (2025). Radiation of pain: psychophysical evidence for a population coding mechanism in humans. Pain, 166(6), 1285–1295. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003474

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As future physiotherapists, we (Mika, Ilka and Paula) want to actively shape where our profession is heading, especially in terms of working conditions.
In today’s episode, you will learn what New Work is, why it is needed in physiotherapy and how it can be implemented effectively.
We also refer to the abstract of Nadine Schlesinger’s Master’s thesis, which provides the scientific background for this topic.
You can find the abstract here: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0045-1811289