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Firefighters and scientists working together to improve #firefighter health and safety through research.

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FIREWELL
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🚨 Help shape a national peer support network for firefighters across Canada 🇨🇦. We're seeking input from firefighters, leaders & family members @CdnFireChiefs . Sessions held online. Learn more & sign up: . 📧 oncall@mcmaster.ca
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Read Summer 2025 Dispatch:
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FIREWELL
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☀️ The Summer 2025 Dispatch is here ☀️. Check out FIREWELL's latest firefighter research on work-related shoulder disorders and mental health. 🔗in reply 👇
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Poster
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🗣️ How do firefighters manage their work-related shoulder injuries?. Temitope Osifeso (PhD candidate, Western University) shared research findings at the 2025 World Physiotherapy Congress in Singapore. Watch 4-min video:
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FIREWELL
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Publication #2: A comparison of firefighter mental health education programs: A descriptive thematic analysis of firefighter experiences.
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FIREWELL
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Dr. Stretton has already published two of her thesis chapters:. Publication #1: The Link Between Stress and Cardiac Outcomes in Firefighters: An Example of Critical Analysis of Causation.
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Heart disease (HD) is the leading cause of death and disability; in 2019, cardiovascular disease alone killed 18.6 million people worldwide. Stress is widely
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FIREWELL
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Huge to congratulations to Dr. Sara Stretton for successfully defending her PhD thesis today at Western University! 👏👏👏. We wish Dr. Stretton all the best with her post-doctoral fellowship at Memorial University!
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FIREWELL
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RT @chronicpainCOE: 💡Sex & gender shape how Veterans experience chronic pain. 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️ From access to care to recovery, it matters. 📊 View….
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RT @chronicpainCOE: 💡Are sex & gender considered in chronic pain research for Veterans? . Dr. Joy MacDermid’s work shows why it matters — e….
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RT @CdnFireChiefs: The Great Canadian Fire Census 2025 has launched! Keep up the great work @cdnfirechiefs: over 100 surveys done so far! S….
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FIREWELL
4 months
Let us introduce you to the Sense of Coherence and how it can be applied to firefighters 👇.
@FireinCanada
Fire Fighting in Canada
4 months
New Post: Firefighters search for meaning
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FIREWELL
4 months
RT @FirewellHealth: 📢NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!. @SoundtheSirenNS study's key finding: the importance of the "Fire Family" as a significant asp….
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FIREWELL
4 months
Thank you to all the firefighters who participated in the study and provided key insights into this important aspect of volunteer firefighting!. Open-access paper:
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FIREWELL
4 months
📢NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!. @SoundtheSirenNS study's key finding: the importance of the "Fire Family" as a significant aspect of the organizational culture & support system for volunteer firefighters in rural Nova Scotia. 🔗article below
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FIREWELL
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“I’ve developed tools to help assess how much difficulty firefighters have at work . firefighters often experience really traumatic events that can affect their physical and mental health. That line of research was also mentioned as part of the award.” - @joymacdermid, PhD.
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Cape Breton Post
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Pain studies earn Cape Breton born doctor Order of Ontario.
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FIREWELL
5 months
Our new paper summarized the content & expected mechanisms and outcomes of studied interventions for Veterans living with chronic pain. Thank you @chronicpainCOE for supporting this great work by @ellefurtado13, @joymacdermid, @pavlosbob, @uwo_dwalton .
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To describe the content of studied intervention programs, the rationale/mechanism and outcomes from these studies and the limitations and gaps within the existing literature.CINAHL, EMBASE, PubMed,...
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FIREWELL
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On International Women's Day, we spotlight the women firefighters & fire organizations that #AccelerateAction for gender equality in the fire service! . @FSWOntario.@FSwomenBC.@WomeninFireOrg.@WFSUK1.@CdnFireChiefs.@WomenOf911.@ctif_org
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FIREWELL
5 months
"Phase 1, starting in 2025, will address PFAS in firefighting foams to better protect firefighters and the environment.".
@environmentca
Environment Canada
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The Government of Canada announced new steps to protect Canadians and ecosystems from polyfluoroalkyl substances (#PFAS), also known as “forever chemicals”. Find out more:
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