Body in Mind

Shaking it up Most of us working in the pain field know the many challenges well. Challenges are widespread, reaching from the health systems (macro) level, downstream through service delivery […]

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is diagnosed according to a clear and distinct description of the signs and symptoms of the condition [1]. Clinician observations and patient reports are used […]

There is a popular belief that chronic non specific low back pain (CNSLBP) patients need to have higher activation of their trunk muscles during simple functional tasks in order to […]

Chronic back pain is one of the most common medical problems patients experience, and it may also be psychologically and socially disabling. People with chronic back pain are significantly more […]

A very simple and clinical way to screen how humans perceive touch is to do a tactile acuity assessment. Tactile acuity is a measure of the precision of the sense […]

When I am asked what my life’s work is, I often respond that I spend my days in a dark basement laboratory, and recruit volunteers who I then subject to […]

Shortly after starting my PhD, my father had a work accident. He broke his wrist in 2 places, and after surgery had to undergo weeks of physiotherapy. While I do […]

In 2008 (eek, that’s a decade ago…) I began my faculty career as an attending psychologist in the newly minted Mayo Family Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Center (PPRC) at Boston Children’s […]

Pain is unpleasant but important for our survival: it is almost as if it is “designed” to tell us that we are in danger. Since people are often busy with […]

Oh for the dream of precision medicine in the world of fibromyalgia (FM)! But how can one possibly apply precision medicine to a condition with the character of a chameleon? […]