Dr Andrea Furlan
@andreafurlan.bsky.social
I'm a physician, scientist, teacher, YouTuber and author. I try to help the person that has chronic pain, not just the pain they have (opinions my own)🇨🇦🇧🇷
For the 5th year, I have been voted Toronto’s Top Pain Mangement Doctor.
Thank you to all doctors who voted for me.
Post City Magazines #TorontoTopDoctors
Thank you to all doctors who voted for me.
Post City Magazines #TorontoTopDoctors
March 8, 2026 at 6:45 PM
For the 5th year, I have been voted Toronto’s Top Pain Mangement Doctor.
Thank you to all doctors who voted for me.
Post City Magazines #TorontoTopDoctors
Thank you to all doctors who voted for me.
Post City Magazines #TorontoTopDoctors
Reposted by Dr Andrea Furlan
For nearly 30 years, Pauline experienced chronic pain. Her brain was sending faulty signals from an injury that had long healed. Pain Reprocessing Therapy with UHN's Rehabilitation Pain Service helped retrain her nervous system.
Read more at:
https://bit.ly/4pVsaLQ
Read more at:
https://bit.ly/4pVsaLQ
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
For nearly 30 years, Pauline experienced chronic pain. Her brain was sending faulty signals from an injury that had long healed. Pain Reprocessing Therapy with UHN's Rehabilitation Pain Service helped retrain her nervous system.
Read more at:
https://bit.ly/4pVsaLQ
Read more at:
https://bit.ly/4pVsaLQ
Reposted by Dr Andrea Furlan
Chronic pain affects 1 in 5 Canadians. ECHO Pain is a medical education program designed to equip clinicians with the skills and support needed to provide safer, more effective care.
➡️ @kiteuhn.bsky.social researchers review 10 years of its impact: www.uhnresearch.ca/news/echos-b...
#ChronicPain
➡️ @kiteuhn.bsky.social researchers review 10 years of its impact: www.uhnresearch.ca/news/echos-b...
#ChronicPain
January 29, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Chronic pain affects 1 in 5 Canadians. ECHO Pain is a medical education program designed to equip clinicians with the skills and support needed to provide safer, more effective care.
➡️ @kiteuhn.bsky.social researchers review 10 years of its impact: www.uhnresearch.ca/news/echos-b...
#ChronicPain
➡️ @kiteuhn.bsky.social researchers review 10 years of its impact: www.uhnresearch.ca/news/echos-b...
#ChronicPain
The Gut–Brain Axis: Why Constipation May Increase Chronic Pain
YouTube video by Dr. Andrea Furlan
youtu.be
January 4, 2026 at 1:11 PM
⚡Book Give Away Today 😀
YouTube video by Dr. Andrea Furlan
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January 1, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Thank you to all my friends who made 2025 a special year!
December 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Thank you to all my friends who made 2025 a special year!
The TAPMI team came to visit us today! And they brought 🍪 cookies. Thank you, and Happy Holidays to you all🎄🕎🎉🎊
December 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The TAPMI team came to visit us today! And they brought 🍪 cookies. Thank you, and Happy Holidays to you all🎄🕎🎉🎊
Listen to my interview to this podcast: Reflexions- a voice for Canadians with Disabilities
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@AccessibleMedia
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Chronic Pain: How can we support people who live with it? - Part 1
Podcast Episode · Reflections · 2025-11-28 · 28m
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December 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Listen to my interview to this podcast: Reflexions- a voice for Canadians with Disabilities
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@AccessibleMedia
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@AccessibleMedia
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November 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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🎥 New video posted today 👉🏻Knee Conditioning Exercises
- Decrease risk of falls
- Reduce Pain
- Improve balance
- Restore Range of Motion
👉🏻 youtu.be/eN_Tx-NJSo4
#exercises #Knee #Arthritis #Fallsrisk
- Decrease risk of falls
- Reduce Pain
- Improve balance
- Restore Range of Motion
👉🏻 youtu.be/eN_Tx-NJSo4
#exercises #Knee #Arthritis #Fallsrisk
Exercises to STRENGTHEN your KNEES at Home
YouTube video by Dr. Andrea Furlan
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
🎥 New video posted today 👉🏻Knee Conditioning Exercises
- Decrease risk of falls
- Reduce Pain
- Improve balance
- Restore Range of Motion
👉🏻 youtu.be/eN_Tx-NJSo4
#exercises #Knee #Arthritis #Fallsrisk
- Decrease risk of falls
- Reduce Pain
- Improve balance
- Restore Range of Motion
👉🏻 youtu.be/eN_Tx-NJSo4
#exercises #Knee #Arthritis #Fallsrisk
Reposted by Dr Andrea Furlan
From November 2 to 8, it’s National Pain Awareness Week.
A week to shed light on the reality of chronic pain and the people dedicated to understanding and addressing it.
Follow #NPAW2025 to stay tuned!
#PrioritizePain @paincanada.bsky.social @painbc.bsky.social
A week to shed light on the reality of chronic pain and the people dedicated to understanding and addressing it.
Follow #NPAW2025 to stay tuned!
#PrioritizePain @paincanada.bsky.social @painbc.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
From November 2 to 8, it’s National Pain Awareness Week.
A week to shed light on the reality of chronic pain and the people dedicated to understanding and addressing it.
Follow #NPAW2025 to stay tuned!
#PrioritizePain @paincanada.bsky.social @painbc.bsky.social
A week to shed light on the reality of chronic pain and the people dedicated to understanding and addressing it.
Follow #NPAW2025 to stay tuned!
#PrioritizePain @paincanada.bsky.social @painbc.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr Andrea Furlan
Today marks the beginning of Pain Awareness Week
For those of us with #fibromyalgia, this week is deeply personal. It’s not “just pain” it’s fatigue, brain fog & the daily fight with an invisible illness.
Let’s raise awareness & compassion. 💜
#NPAW2025 #FAC @pain_canada
For those of us with #fibromyalgia, this week is deeply personal. It’s not “just pain” it’s fatigue, brain fog & the daily fight with an invisible illness.
Let’s raise awareness & compassion. 💜
#NPAW2025 #FAC @pain_canada
November 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Today marks the beginning of Pain Awareness Week
For those of us with #fibromyalgia, this week is deeply personal. It’s not “just pain” it’s fatigue, brain fog & the daily fight with an invisible illness.
Let’s raise awareness & compassion. 💜
#NPAW2025 #FAC @pain_canada
For those of us with #fibromyalgia, this week is deeply personal. It’s not “just pain” it’s fatigue, brain fog & the daily fight with an invisible illness.
Let’s raise awareness & compassion. 💜
#NPAW2025 #FAC @pain_canada
I'll be LIVE at the Panel "Helping You To Help Yourself"
Tuesday Nov 4, 2025 12 noon PST - 3pm EST
Register to "Putting the Pieces Together" brought to you by @paincanada.bsky.social
www.paincanada.ca/events/putti...
#NationalPainAwarenessWeek2025 #NPAW2025 #PrioritizePain
Tuesday Nov 4, 2025 12 noon PST - 3pm EST
Register to "Putting the Pieces Together" brought to you by @paincanada.bsky.social
www.paincanada.ca/events/putti...
#NationalPainAwarenessWeek2025 #NPAW2025 #PrioritizePain
Putting the Pieces Together | Pain Canada
www.paincanada.ca
November 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I'll be LIVE at the Panel "Helping You To Help Yourself"
Tuesday Nov 4, 2025 12 noon PST - 3pm EST
Register to "Putting the Pieces Together" brought to you by @paincanada.bsky.social
www.paincanada.ca/events/putti...
#NationalPainAwarenessWeek2025 #NPAW2025 #PrioritizePain
Tuesday Nov 4, 2025 12 noon PST - 3pm EST
Register to "Putting the Pieces Together" brought to you by @paincanada.bsky.social
www.paincanada.ca/events/putti...
#NationalPainAwarenessWeek2025 #NPAW2025 #PrioritizePain
Why Does Pain Feel So Different?
Follow me to learn more about: #ChronicPain #Nociceptive #Neuropathic #Nociplastic #neuroplastic #TMS #PainNeuroscience #PainNeuroscienceEducation #PNE #PRT #Neuroplasticity #PainEducation #PainScience
Follow me to learn more about: #ChronicPain #Nociceptive #Neuropathic #Nociplastic #neuroplastic #TMS #PainNeuroscience #PainNeuroscienceEducation #PNE #PRT #Neuroplasticity #PainEducation #PainScience
August 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Why Does Pain Feel So Different?
Follow me to learn more about: #ChronicPain #Nociceptive #Neuropathic #Nociplastic #neuroplastic #TMS #PainNeuroscience #PainNeuroscienceEducation #PNE #PRT #Neuroplasticity #PainEducation #PainScience
Follow me to learn more about: #ChronicPain #Nociceptive #Neuropathic #Nociplastic #neuroplastic #TMS #PainNeuroscience #PainNeuroscienceEducation #PNE #PRT #Neuroplasticity #PainEducation #PainScience
Reposted by Dr Andrea Furlan
Dear Bsky Friends, breakthrough: finally a treatment that works for patients with chronic #pain following #whiplash! Cost-effective treatment + reduced disability & symptoms immediately after treatment + at 1y follow-up. Open access:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
August 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Dear Bsky Friends, breakthrough: finally a treatment that works for patients with chronic #pain following #whiplash! Cost-effective treatment + reduced disability & symptoms immediately after treatment + at 1y follow-up. Open access:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Reposted by Dr Andrea Furlan
For one of my pain modulation „bibles“ that also includes information on the amygdala-mPFC-PAG circuitry see:
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
Cellular Circuits in the Brain and Their Modulation in Acute and Chronic Pain | Physiological Reviews | American Physiological Society
Chronic, pathological pain remains a global health problem and a challenge to basic and clinical sciences. A major obstacle to preventing, treating, or reverting chronic pain has been that the nature ...
journals.physiology.org
July 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
For one of my pain modulation „bibles“ that also includes information on the amygdala-mPFC-PAG circuitry see:
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Dr Andrea Furlan
Hope you are enjoying summer activities.
Some tips for Gardening with #Chronic Pain
- Warm up first
- Use a wheelbarrow
- Lift with your legs
@peoplepainnetwork.bsky.social
Resource @andreafurlan.bsky.social
www.doctorandreafurlan.com/book
Some tips for Gardening with #Chronic Pain
- Warm up first
- Use a wheelbarrow
- Lift with your legs
@peoplepainnetwork.bsky.social
Resource @andreafurlan.bsky.social
www.doctorandreafurlan.com/book
July 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Hope you are enjoying summer activities.
Some tips for Gardening with #Chronic Pain
- Warm up first
- Use a wheelbarrow
- Lift with your legs
@peoplepainnetwork.bsky.social
Resource @andreafurlan.bsky.social
www.doctorandreafurlan.com/book
Some tips for Gardening with #Chronic Pain
- Warm up first
- Use a wheelbarrow
- Lift with your legs
@peoplepainnetwork.bsky.social
Resource @andreafurlan.bsky.social
www.doctorandreafurlan.com/book
We can’t deny it: there is emotional pain.
We need better treatments that address the emotional and motivational components of pain.
Thalamic CGRP neurons define a spinothalamic pathway for affective pain
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We need better treatments that address the emotional and motivational components of pain.
Thalamic CGRP neurons define a spinothalamic pathway for affective pain
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
July 20, 2025 at 12:59 AM
We can’t deny it: there is emotional pain.
We need better treatments that address the emotional and motivational components of pain.
Thalamic CGRP neurons define a spinothalamic pathway for affective pain
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We need better treatments that address the emotional and motivational components of pain.
Thalamic CGRP neurons define a spinothalamic pathway for affective pain
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Dr Andrea Furlan
Breaking #chronicpain news! 📺
Watch Global News Montréal at 1730 or @globalnews.ca National at 1830, for interviews by reporter Felicia Parrillo ...
Featuring @evp82.bsky.social & Dr. Mark Ware, & me - as a chronic pain patient & advocate - about why these pain research results matter!💥
Watch Global News Montréal at 1730 or @globalnews.ca National at 1830, for interviews by reporter Felicia Parrillo ...
Featuring @evp82.bsky.social & Dr. Mark Ware, & me - as a chronic pain patient & advocate - about why these pain research results matter!💥
Our new @NatureHumBehav paper shows why we need a holistic pain biomarker framework. ML on blood tests, brain/bone imaging & genetics predicts clinical diagnoses but falls short on subjective pain. Adding psychosocial (mood, sleep, stress) boosts both. shorturl.at/vxxeO
Biological markers and psychosocial factors predict chronic pain conditions - Nature Human Behaviour
Fillingim et al. show that biological and psychosocial factors jointly predict conditions associated with chronic pain.
shorturl.at
July 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Breaking #chronicpain news! 📺
Watch Global News Montréal at 1730 or @globalnews.ca National at 1830, for interviews by reporter Felicia Parrillo ...
Featuring @evp82.bsky.social & Dr. Mark Ware, & me - as a chronic pain patient & advocate - about why these pain research results matter!💥
Watch Global News Montréal at 1730 or @globalnews.ca National at 1830, for interviews by reporter Felicia Parrillo ...
Featuring @evp82.bsky.social & Dr. Mark Ware, & me - as a chronic pain patient & advocate - about why these pain research results matter!💥
Reposted by Dr Andrea Furlan
In patients with knee osteoarthritis and overweight or obesity, metformin, 2000 mg/d, for 6 months had a moderate and statistically significant effect on knee pain reduction compared with placebo.
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June 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
In patients with knee osteoarthritis and overweight or obesity, metformin, 2000 mg/d, for 6 months had a moderate and statistically significant effect on knee pain reduction compared with placebo.
ja.ma/43TzAae #MedSky
ja.ma/43TzAae #MedSky
Watch my interview on @cbcnews-rss.bsky.social about the new non-opioid painkiller #suzetrigine
youtube.com/watch?v=KfJX...
youtube.com/watch?v=KfJX...
What we know about the new painkiller suzetrigine
YouTube video by CBC News
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July 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Watch my interview on @cbcnews-rss.bsky.social about the new non-opioid painkiller #suzetrigine
youtube.com/watch?v=KfJX...
youtube.com/watch?v=KfJX...
Reposted by Dr Andrea Furlan
The Scientist: 'Immune Markers Help Identify Subgroups of ME/CFS Patients'
'Proteins involved in neuroinflammation found in the cerebrospinal fluid could help researchers better diagnose and treat chronic fatigue syndrome.'
www.the-scientist.com/profiling-im...
'Proteins involved in neuroinflammation found in the cerebrospinal fluid could help researchers better diagnose and treat chronic fatigue syndrome.'
www.the-scientist.com/profiling-im...
Immune Markers Help Identify Subgroups of ME/CFS Patients
Proteins involved in neuroinflammation found in the cerebrospinal fluid could help researchers better diagnose and treat chronic fatigue syndrome.
www.the-scientist.com
July 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The Scientist: 'Immune Markers Help Identify Subgroups of ME/CFS Patients'
'Proteins involved in neuroinflammation found in the cerebrospinal fluid could help researchers better diagnose and treat chronic fatigue syndrome.'
www.the-scientist.com/profiling-im...
'Proteins involved in neuroinflammation found in the cerebrospinal fluid could help researchers better diagnose and treat chronic fatigue syndrome.'
www.the-scientist.com/profiling-im...