Body in Mind

The implementation of evidence into practice, even today, where science plays a role in much of our lives, is an elusive task. This challenge in health care is perhaps most […]

Jack: “Ouch, my head hurts!” Jill: “Don’t freak out, Jack.” Jack: “Why not? It hurts!” Jill: “Yeah but freaking out will only make it worse.” Jack: “How do you know? […]

Chronic pain and emotions are closely tied. Not only is chronic pain linked to changes in depression, anxiety, and anger, but emotions also impact pain [1]. Some types of pain […]

In recent years there has been a sharp increase in the use of mobile phones, especially among young people. Over the same period, there has been a growing prevalence of […]

A child falling on the street might seem perfectly fine yet burst into tears upon being noticed by its parents. If your (male) partner has the flu, you will no […]

For some time, patients, clinicians and researchers have tried to understand the causes of back pain. Theories are abundant, and some have been empirically tested. But to date, the only […]

Is back pain a problem for kids? One of the things that some universities do to help out new researchers is have senior academics look over their grant applications before […]

The use of different outcomes across clinical trials on the same health condition may hamper comparability of findings and conduction of meta-analysis. This problem can be dealt with the development […]

Background Typically, self-management behaviour change interventions for persistent low back pain (LBP) help the patient to learn and adopt a set of health behaviours that they can use to reduce […]

Our paper[1] in the latest special edition of Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology on back pain aimed to compare, contrast and discuss 3 recent international guidelines for the management […]