Body in Mind

A little while ago, Paul Lagerman said this: “….  I was speaking to a colleague of mine who is a pain specialist and we were discussing central sensitisation.  As I understand […]

Occasionally, very occasionally, Heidi will show me something on youtube (or one of those Heidi-type sites) that is really very good. And this really is very good. The graphics are […]

By Denis Dempsey I now have seen the movie The king’s speech a couple of times and after seeing it again it is great to realize that you guys downunder […]

Body image means different things to different people. To many it refers to how one feels about one’s body.  To us, it refers to how one’s body feels to oneself […]

By Flavia Di Pietro I think about this a lot.  It leads me to ponder the distinction between pain and nociception.  We found a chapter on exactly this in a […]

By Megan Auld In research and in clinical practice, I’m forever finding myself snagged on the details – missing the story by getting caught up with p-values, forgetting that the […]

We have written a fair amount here about back pain. We’ve criticised some of the information patients get, shown how data has undermined many widely held beliefs about back pain […]

Mindfulness is, it seems, in fashion. Every month there seems to be a new TV show or talkback hour on its wondrous curative powers.  It made it into our Christmas […]

Guidelines are so in aren’t they?  I guess this is what happens when evidenced based medicine begins to take hold. Broadly speaking, I reckon it is a good thing.  There […]

We had a BiM team meeting on Tuesday, as we do every Tuesday.  We got talking about the BiM blog – revisiting our objectives and how best to meet them. […]