Body in Mind

Reduction in pain and disability with a graded sensorimotor retraining program in chronic back pain Our team recently returned home from Darwin, where we all attended the Australian Pain Society’s […]

At the world congress on pain in Glasgow, 2008, a small group of CRPS researchers got around a table and asked each other something like ‘isn’t it high time we […]

I went to Dublin the other day. I like Dublin. I like the Irish actually. One Irishman who seems particularly likeable is a fellow called David Fitzgerald. He offered to […]

A little while ago I was fortunate enough to meet with a bunch of (mainly) Californians in a lovely Jacaranda-laden Campus of St Mary’s College, LA.  There was a competition, […]

is a question that came up after a recent seminar where unpublished research was being presented.  It’s the sort of thing that makes researchers turn pale and sweat – unpublished […]

A while back Ben Wand blogged here about grey matter density changes in the brain and chronic pain – and particularly about a study demonstrating grey matter density reductions in […]

There has been a lot of talk and fuss about the rubber hand illusion, since Botvinick and Cohen first described it.[1] In short, by stroking the real hand, which is […]

People with chronic pain have some pretty odd perceptual disturbances – the affected area might feel swollen when it is not,[1] it might be difficult to ‘find’  in the mind’s eye,[2] […]

The gate control theory gave us all a theoretical rationale for ‘rubbing it better’ – activation of Aβ fibres and subsequent ‘closing of the gate’ in the dorsal horn. Well, […]

Quick reminder from last post: The aim of our study[1] was to evaluate the assumptions that were made when translating the individual study criteria[2-6] (eg, all the criteria from the original subgrouping […]