David Walton
Dave Walton brings a strong background in transdisciplinary research, futurist thought, and critical perspectives on rehabilitation, pain, and clinical measurement and applies that sort of thinking to the wicked problem of spinal pain.
Physically located at Elborn College on Western’s campus, the approaches taken are often proof-of-concept, pilot and feasibility studies of novel and innovative ways of thinking about and managing spinal pain. This includes a range of disciplinary thinking from genomics and proteomics through engineering, quantified humans, habits of clinical practice all the way to social structures that reinforce stigma and unhelpful assumptions about people in pain.
Promising exploratory findings are then moved through to the Clinical Translation arm, with few confirmatory studies conducted within the Elborn setting.
Questions:
- Who develops spinal pain?
- What is the experience of spinal pain?
- Of those who develop spinal pain, who gets better?
- When and where does the transition to chronic pain occur?
- What is the experience of chronic spinal pain?
- What are the intervention needs of those with spinal pain?
