Body in Mind

Is it possible that a lack of centralisation reflects a predominance of centralisation?  Well, the undisputed wrestling champion of physical therapy is wrestling with this very topic, having been motivated […]

I have a challenge for you. Imagine you’re in ancient China and you’ve had this idea that health and disease hang on the flow of energy through invisible energy pathways […]

Placebo effects are a great way to start a conversation, particularly if one is at a Clinical Trials Festival. Rather than being fascinated by the possibilities of the brain’s internal […]

Every now and then I stumble across a paper that evokes the reaction “I wish I’d though of that”. Such a paper recently turned up in the journal Rheumatology by […]

Some time ago, we were inspired by some debate in the literature on whether the term neuroplasticity was overdone. Cooked up. Passe.  It is timely to revisit this now, for […]

Descending modulation, descending inhibition, descending noxious inhibitory control, descending inhibitory noxious control etc etc etc, are used interchangeably and I wish they weren’t. A recent article in PAIN has looked […]

The clinical sciences literature is full of examples of an association between two variables being mistaken for causation.  How many treatments are based on strong evidence that ‘this’ and ‘that’ […]

Some take the tube, others the train…The Amazing Race in the brain It makes sense that we need to process and respond to some stuff we see quicker than other […]

We’ve all wondered how to get our patients to change their life habits (to the better of course…in our minds). In fact, the behavioural and physical therapies depend on us […]

Diane Jacobs and David Fluecke put us onto this. It is a short doco-style film on Ron Melzack, who is half of Melzack and Wall – the authors of the famous […]