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Asaf (Klaf) Weisman
@asafklaf.bsky.social
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PhD candidate at Tel-Aviv University. I am a researcher of the spine and people
experiencing pain. I am also an MSK Physiotherapist. Follow me for the
neuroscience of pain, spine, and health issues. Blog: painlosophy.wordpress.com



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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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4d
Instead of talking about the predatory nature of MDPI journals, can we talk
about how UGLY their formatting is? It’s literally hurting my eyes reading their
papers online and PDFs 😣
#painresearch
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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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5d
🤘🏻The study I have been waiting for 30 years! Only Scandinavians can pull this
out let alone publish it in a Scandinavian pain journal 🤘🏻
#painscience
#physio
#painresearch
#ignobel2025
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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5d
Finalnd downgraded many MDPI and Frontiers journals in their quality grading.
Good call for MDPI. As for Frontiers I am not really sure but tend to say its
also a good call. 🧪 🛟
#physio
#painresearch
retractionwatch.com/2024/12/24/f...
Finland Publication Forum will downgrade hundreds of Frontiers and MDPI journals
A committee of scholars in Finland has decided to downgrade 271 journals from
Frontiers and MDPI in their quality rating system, in a move that may discourage
researchers from submitting manuscript…
retractionwatch.com
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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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6d
This paper is making the rounds on social media. I have been trying really hard
to find and understand the point where this paper actually says something of
novel significance and I failed miserably 🤷🏻‍♂️
#physio
#neuroskyence
#painresearch
bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Pain can’t be carved at the joints: defining function-based pain profiles and
their relevance to chronic disease management in healthcare delivery design -
BMC Medicine
Background Pain is a complex problem that is triaged, diagnosed, treated, and
billed based on which body part is painful, almost without exception. While the
“body part framework” guides the organizat...
bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com
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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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19d
Today, in the stupid article title department... How is this nonsense
acceptable?
#painscience
#painresearch
#neuroscience

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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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20d
Interesting new mutation identified in the SCN9A gene, which leads to
nociceptive deficiency (not “insensitivity to pain” 🤦🏻‍♂️). This gene encodes
for the Nav1.7 sodium gated channel.
#painscience
#painresearch
#neuroscience
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39528285/
[Genetic analysis of a child with Congenital insensitivity to pain due to
compound heterozygous variants of SCN9A gene] - PubMed
The child was diagnosed with CIP due to the compound heterozygous variants of
the SCN9A gene. Above finding has enabled genetic counselling and reproductive
guidance for this family.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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23d
Amazing! Deep thalamic brain stimulation helped mice and 2 human patients with
partial spinal cord injury to regain the ability to walk!
#medsky
#physio
🧪 🛟 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hypothalamic deep brain stimulation augments walking after spinal cord injury -
Nature Medicine
Whole-brain anatomical and activity surveys identify the lateral hypothalamus as
a key driver of recovery from spinal cord injury, leading to a deep brain
stimulation therapy that augments the recover...
www.nature.com
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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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24d
New study with shear wave elastography, shows patients with chronic nonspecific
low back pain, have stiffer lumbar fascia snd muscles compared to controls. Good
sample size and moderate to large effects!
#painscience
#physio
#painresearch
www.frontiersin.org/journals/bio...
Frontiers | Shear wave elastography based analysis of changes in fascial and
muscle stiffness in patients with chronic non-specific low back pain
BackgroundThe quantitative assessment of individual muscle and fascial stiffness
in patients with low back pain remains a challenge. This study aimed to comp...
www.frontiersin.org
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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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25d
Took it a bit, but just had the first sex bot follow me here 🙄
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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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28d
Repost
#physio
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‪Dr Ed Oates‬ ‪@traumaticum.bsky.social‬
·
1mo
How are you attacking this? Concerns? Approach? Sequence of reduction and
fixation? And nobody dare say prone 😭 Any extended classification to include to
collicular involvement @drlyndonmason.bsky.social #orthosky #orthopedics


‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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29d
Nature Outlook - A collection of articles about pain from September.
#painscience
www.nature.com/collections/...
Pain
People spend much of their lives trying to soothe physical pain.
www.nature.com
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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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1mo
Took the
#SportsScience
feed a bit if time to jump start, but, the content and posts are beginning to
flow. Pin to your home to join the party bsky.app/profile/did:...
Sports Skyence
Feed by ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
Liked by 8 users
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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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1mo
Since an academic douche bothered to mock at this: Why do my colleagues and I
call the nociceptive section of the nervous system, an apparatus, and not a
”system”? Chat GPT gives a very good answer here.
#painscience
#neuroscience
#painskyence
ALT
ALT
ALT
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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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1mo
I created a new feed
#sportsskyence
, for sports scientists, physiologists, exercise scientists, and sports
physicians. Active hashtags. Pin it to your home to join. Main active hashtags:
#sportsscience
#sportsmedicine
#sportsmed
#sportsinjuries
#exercisescience
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Sports Skyence
Feed by ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
Liked by 8 users
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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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1mo
Repost
#painscience
feed
‪Keith Meldrum‬ ‪@keithmeldrum.bsky.social‬
·
1mo
The 2025 Pacific Pain Forum will be held on April 4; attend in person in
downtown Vancouver, BC or participate online. I am a member of the planning
committee and I will be presenting again. I suggest registering early to secure
your spot at: lnkd.in/g_mf-3Hn. I hope you can join us.

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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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1mo
Repost
#physio
‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
·
1mo
New and important systematic review of language errors in #painmedicine and
#painscience by @rogerhilfiker.bsky.social and team. Sorry for giving you guys
hard time as reviewer 2 😉 Well done! www.jpain.org/article/S152...

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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
·
1mo
New and important systematic review of language errors in
#painmedicine
and
#painscience
by
@rogerhilfiker.bsky.social
and team. Sorry for giving you guys hard time as reviewer 2 😉 Well done!
www.jpain.org/article/S152...

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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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1mo
Because of the massive wave of new joiners this week, feed servers are
experiencing delays and temporary outages. It may take some time for Bluesky to
update their API and for feed hosts to catch up. Nevertheless, the
#painscience
and
#physiotherapy
feeds are currently active.
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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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1mo
Nicely presented.
#painscience
#painskyence
#neuroscience
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
What's so special about the human brain?
Torrents of data from cell atlases, brain organoids and other methods are
finally delivering answers to an age-old question.
www.nature.com
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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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1mo
The
#physiotherapy
#painscience
and
#painskyence
feeds are getting livelier and filling up with interesting content. Here are the
links. Pin them to your home to join bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Physiotherapy
Feed by ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
Liked by 22 users
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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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1mo
New systematic review: “Glial-modulating agents for the treatment of pain: a
systematic review”
#painscience
#physio
journals.lww.com/pain/abstrac...
Glial-modulating agents for the treatment of pain: a... : PAIN
language, randomized, double-blind trials comparing putative glia-modulating
drugs to placebo or other comparators. The primary outcomes included validated
participant-reported measures of pain intens...
journals.lww.com
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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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1mo
New systematic review “The role of neutrophils in pain: systematic review and
meta-analysis of animal studies”
#painscience
#physio
journals.lww.com/pain/abstrac...
The role of neutrophils in pain: systematic review and... : PAIN
eclinical studies, which evaluated the effect of preemptive neutrophil depletion
on pain outcomes (PROSPERO registration number: CRD42022364004). Literature
search (PubMed, January 19, 2023) identifie...
journals.lww.com

‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
·
1mo
repost
#physio
#painscience
‪Leonard Van Gelder‬ ‪@leonardvangelder.bsky.social‬
·
1mo
Do these count? contextualhealth.org/2thingsabout...
contextualhealth.org/flexiblepost...
The Two Things You Need to Know About Pain: It’s Not What You Think (1 of 3 Pain
Series) - IOCH
The Two Things You Need to Know About Pain: It’s Not What You Think Have you
ever left a doctor’s office more confused than when you walked in? Maybe you
were told you have ‘muscle pain,’ ‘nerve pain,...
contextualhealth.org
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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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1mo
I preapproved several content creators whom I know for the
#physio
feed. This means their content automatically shows without the need for
hashtags. If you are a content creator for the
#physicaltherapy
community, respond here, and I will add you to make the feed livelier.
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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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1mo
Repost
#painscience
‪Adam Meakins‬ ‪@adammeakins.bsky.social‬
·
1mo
Pain intensity measures don’t only measure pain intensity… they also measure
pain distress! When someone says their pain is 10/10… often they’re saying “I’m
really struggling, please take me seriously” www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
The validity of pain intensity measures: what do the NRS, VAS, VRS, and FPS-R
measure?
Background and aims: The Numerical Rating Scale (NRS), Visual Analogue Scale
(VAS), Verbal Rating Scale (VRS), and Faces Pain Scale-Revised (FPS-R) are valid
measures of pain intensity. However, ratin...
www.degruyter.com
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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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1mo
In this new study the authors noted what I would call obvious adverse effects of
pain neuroscience education, which we predicted in our 2022 paper. Strange that
they didn’t cite it, as I know they are aware of it! Link: shorturl.at/SZVJF Our
study: shorturl.at/grKD5
#painscience
#physio

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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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1mo
I created another feed. This one will be more academic and curated. The only
active hashtags are:
#painscience
#PainSkyence
and
#painskyence
Link to pin: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
·
1mo
New paper! “Neuroinflammation”: does it have a role in chronic pain? Evidence
from human imaging” Review of PET scan results. Paper link: shorturl.at/PZkEx
#painscience
#physio
“Neuroinflammation”: does it have a role in chronic pain?... : PAIN
Here, I present the results of multiple positron emission tomography (PET)
studies measuring the levels of the 18 kDa translocator protein (TSPO), a
putative neuroimmune marker, in individuals with va...
shorturl.at
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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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1mo
The high intensity zone (HIZ) making a comeback, with some strong statistical
findings. People with HIZ are 8 times more likely to have pain than those
without.
#painscience
#physiotherapy
shorturl.at/C8ojQ
Does the high-intensity zone of lumbar intervertebral disc at magnetic resonance
imaging have diagnostic value for discogenic low back pain? A meta-analysis -
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
Objective The correlation between high-intensity zone (HIZ) of lumbar disc
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and discogenic low back pain (DLBP) is
currently controversial, this study aimed to systemat...
shorturl.at
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‪Asaf (Klaf) Weisman‬ ‪@asafklaf.bsky.social‬
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1mo
Yesterday’s lecture to Master’s students at Tel-Aviv Uni titled - “The Language
and Logic of Pain”…Slide on the problem of Qualia in
#neuroscience
Link to a blog I wrote a while back: shorturl.at/q9eVx
#painscience
#physio

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Asaf (Klaf) Weisman

asafklaf.bsky.social

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PhD candidate at Tel-Aviv University. I am a researcher of the spine and people
experiencing pain. I am also an MSK Physiotherapist. Follow me for the
neuroscience of pain, spine, and health issues. Blog:
https://painlosophy.wordpress.com/