Body in Mind

Some of the difficulties that people with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) report in feeling and moving their affected limb appear to be similar to a condition called hemispatial neglect […]

Earlier this month, Nature Reviews Neurology published a Consensus Statement from a presidential taskforce of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), on the use of brain imaging […]

Why is listening to people so hard? A 4-Part Clinical Collaboration Reflection Part 4 Our daily work with people in pain is a leadership position. It would be nice to wait […]

Why is listening to people so hard? A 4-Part Clinical Collaboration Reflection Part 3  What does it take to change a cultural narrative around a healthcare issue like pain? It takes […]

Why is listening to people so hard? A 4-Part Clinical Collaboration Reflection Part 2 Collaborative care, in it’s current form, is not very scaleable. In chronic pain care, we have a situation […]

Why is listening to people so hard? A 4-Part Clinical Collaboration Reflection Part 1 Whatever happened to “health” and “care” in healthcare?  We’ve woken up in 2017 to an internet bursting […]

Wouldn’t it be great if we could give our patients a prognosis that is evidence based and tailored to their presentation? Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is, however, a complex […]

Professor Roberto Perez, who died on September 7th this year, was a Physiotherapist by profession, and Professor of Pain and Pain Therapy Research at VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam.  He […]

A sense of embodiment, that is, ownership, over one’s own body is a pervasive sensation that is rarely interrupted or lost. Despite being ubiquitous, the influence of embodiment on treatment […]

Spoiler alert: This blogpost contains null findings.  Paying too much attention to pain is bad. At least, that’s the idea for people who have chronic benign pain, where the pain […]