Body in Mind

The fifth and last of our ‘Oldies but Goodies’ series is by Peter O’Sullivan: This story of a 28 year old man with disabling low back pain illustrates the CB-CFT […]

Over this holiday season we are posting the most popular articles from the last five years.  The fourth most read in our archive is on isometric tendon pain by Ebonie Rio. Isometrics reduce tendon pain […]

Over this holiday season we are posting the most read articles from the last five years.  The third is a BiM review of a J Pain paper by Alban Latremoliere and Clifford J. […]

Over this holiday season we are posting the most read articles from the last five years.  Here is the second. The trigger point strikes … out! John Quintner and colleagues recently published […]

Over this holiday season we are posting the most read articles from the last five years.  Here is the first. What is Complex Regional Pain Syndrome – in plain English What is […]

Pain is not a big killer like cancer or infectious diseases. However, back pain tops the scales of disease burden: when comorbidity is considered with disability-adjusted life years (DALYs)*– then […]

Pain tends to grab our attention, making it difficult to concentrate on other tasks. This is generally a useful feature of pain – if we burn ourselves while cooking, it’s […]

Recent global burden of disease surveys tell us that pain and depression are two of the most common and pervasive issues in modern society. The fact that these two are […]

Introduction Our recent review, published in “Pain Medicine”, highlighted the measurement properties of quantitative sensory testing (QST) and its clinical utility. QST results have been shown to be related to […]

What is inflammation? We usually talk about “inflammation” in relation to infections and injuries. When the body is infected, the immune cells recognize the ‘non-self’ molecules and produce inflammatory factors, […]