The 2016 Lars List: Best Content for Health Professionals
It’s an honour to be included once again in what I have come to think of as “The Lars List”: Lars Avemarie’s annual list of the best articles (and other content) for health professionals.
It’s an honour not just to be included, but included four times this year, which seems rather generous, because the company I’m keeping on this list is dazzling. There are several entries from my distinguished friends at Science-Based Medicine, as well as particularly excellent writers and teachers like Greg Lehman, Todd Hargrove, and Christie Aschwanden; freakishly bright people like David Colquhoun, Fred Wolfe, and Edzard Ernst; and fiercely progressive professionals like Adam Meakins, Tony Ingram, and Nick Ng, all of whom actually deserve a reputation for being “sassy” and tough-minded more than I do.
More than the “honour,” what being included here means to me is that I must be Doing Something Right. (Assuming I am not also included on best-of lists like The Best Snake Oil of 2016 or The Greatest Hits of Confirmation Bias in 2016.)
Ironically, the four articles of mine that Lars included are not remotely my own top picks for the last year (not that Lars was necessarily restricting himself to content published in 2016). My own four picks would be:
- The 3 Basic Types of Pain: Nociceptive, neuropathic, and “other” (and then some more)
- Complete Guide to Frozen Shoulder: An extremely detailed science-based guide to one of the strangest of all common musculoskeletal problems, for both patients and pros
- The Trigger Point Identity Crisis: The biological evidence that a trigger point is a lesion in muscle tissue
- Zapped! Does TENS work for pain? The peculiar popularity of being gently zapped with electrical stimulation therapy
And now the 2016 Lars List …
THE BEST ARTICLES LECTURES and PODCASTS of 2016 for HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
[copied and pasted from Lars’ public Facebook post]
- Pseudo-quackery in Chronic Pain Care
- The Truth About Ketogenic Dieting
- Dry Needling
- Products that promise “detox” are a sham. Yes, all of them....
- Plausibility in Science-Based Medicine
- Five myths about chronic pain: Why it is not all in the head
- The Clean Eating Delusion
- How blogging about physiotherapy research can get you fired
- Eight slogans that quacks love to use: if you hear these, find a proper doctor
- The NAF Physio Podcast Episode 10: Talking Posture, Pain, Stretching, and Mooses with Greg Lehman
- High-carb, high satiety?
- The world of Gary Taubes
- What is a P Value?
- The Trouble with Chairs
- The “It Worked for Me” Gambit
- The trigger point strikes … out!
- You Are Not So Smart 066 - Bullshit - Gordon Pennycook
- You Are Not So Smart 065 - Survivorship Bias (rebroadcast)
- Poking Holes in the Evidence for Acupuncture
- Pain lectures with Pain Expert like Moseley, Stanton, Butler, O’Sullivan, Nijs, O´Connell, Zusman, Lehman, Reme, Thacker, Louw and Dr. Kieran O’Sullivan
- How Sleep Deprivation Decays the Mind and Body
- A Study of Pain Science with Dr. Jo Nijs, PhD
- Knowledge Bombs for a Successful Clinical Career
- Does Spinal Manipulation Work?
- 9 tendinopathy truths that you MUST know
- Why Most People Are Wrong About Injuries and Pain
- New evidence gives supporters of chiropractic a headache
- Posture not the pain in the neck as previously thought
- Why Do People Favor Opinion Over Scientific Evidence?
- Why sleep matters — the economic costs of insufficient sleep
- 75% of Persons in the General Population Diagnosed with Fibromyalgia Don’t Have It, But It Is Worse Than That …
- “Movement quality” still does not clearly predict injury
- The Problem With Satisfied Patients
- Three Reasons It Matters Why A Treatment Works
- How to Check the Quality of a Research Article
- Science-based Theatrics in Physical Therapy
- We’ve long blamed carbs for making us fat. What if that's wrong?
- No, It’s Not Your Opinion. You’re Just Wrong
- The Rollercoaster of Professional Life
- Explainer – what is pain?
- Visceral manipulation … you couldn’t make it up
- When science- and evidence-based guidelines conflict with patient wishes
- Your Body is Not a Machine and I Am Not a Mechanic
- Our world is awash in bullshit health claims. These scientists want to train kids to spot them.
- Cognitive bias cheat sheet - Because thinking is hard
- Measles is more dangerous than we thought, and vaccines are as safe as we thought
- Actually, Research Does Apply To Your Patients
- In Defense of Evidence Based Practice
- 10 Phrases to Teach a Parrot to Recite to Injured Runners
- Explainer: what is a null hypothesis?
- Placebos effects are weak: Regression to the mean is the main reason ineffective
- Science Isn’t Broken
- What is Central Sensitization? A short video with Dr. Jo Nijs about central sensitization!
- General Rules for Muscle Hypertrophy
- Doctors still order imaging for low back pain, against recommendations
- 10 mistakes I have made using a movement based approach
- The problem with p-values
- Research: We Drop People Who Give Us Critical Feedback
- Top 10 Arguments Against Science-Based Training and Nutrition [unavailable]
- A Beginner’s Guide to Eating for Weight Loss
- Pain in runners: Why do I hurt?
- Fasted Cardio and Fat Loss: Take Home Points
- A ‘Memory Hacker’ Explains How to Plant False Memories in People’s Minds
- The Truth About Hormones In Milk
- Movement Culture - a force for good?
- Do no harm! Do nothing!
- Light-Load Training: Can It Build Muscle?
- Deep versus shallow models of manual therapy
- What I don’t do.
- What is K-Tape? Does it work?
- Good Calories, Bad Calories: The Mythology of Obesity, or The Mythology of Gary Taubes?
- 5 Things They’re Not Telling You About Sugar
- Why Science? – Because We’re Usually Wrong [defunct link]
- Tearing Down the Pillars of Evidence Based Practice
- You don't need clinical experience, You need deliberate practice. And, don’t be fooled you still need a lot of it
- What Does Current Evidence Say About the Effectiveness of Kinesio Taping?
- 12 bad reasons for rejecting scientific studies