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Saurab Sharma, PhD Profile picture
Saurab Sharma, PhD
@link_physio
Postdoc @UNSW @neuraustralia | Advocating & researching equitable health care | MSK Physiotherapist 🇳🇵| #Pain #BackPainLMICs | A new dad | Views=own
May 17, 2020 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
Many people have looked at my PhD with scepticism. 20+ papers in 3 years, is rare, raising questions and concerns.

Understanding some context could help.

I spent my teen years and most of my early adult life in Nepal in great deprivation like many other millenials. 1/n Life then in Nepal was life now most places during the COVID-19 pandemic, an analogy you can relate to.

Because of political instability, we frequent strikes, curfews frequently (~ violent Lockdown); load shedding (it's power cut off > 18 hrs in a day, yes in a day). 2/n
Mar 26, 2020 • 24 tweets • 19 min read
I will be sharing my Ph.D. research during the next 30 days #Covid19 lockdown, while I wait for my Ph.D. defence!

My Ph.D. mainly aimed to improve pain care in Nepal.

Paper 1: Nepali Numerical Rating Scale and Global Rating of Change! bit.ly/2JdysnJ Image Paper 2: Validation of the Nepali Patient-Specific Functional Scale published in our very own @JOSPT. We found that PSFS is comprehensible, reliable, valid, and responsive in people with MSK pain (who r able to comprehend numbers). Full-text: jospt.org/doi/abs/10.251… Image