Body in Mind

Many children and teenagers are affected by chronic pain, which can negatively impact their day-to-day activities, how they feel, and their likelihood of future health problems[1,2,3,4]. Psychological therapies are effective […]

Introducing left/right judgement tasks (LRJTs) into clinical practice and using them in the management of individuals with chronic pain is, I think, something to celebrate and a success story for […]

Pain is not a singular physical sensation. It can be amplified or reduced by a multitude of physical, psychological, and social factors. For example, we recently found that when children […]

Times are changing. Our understanding of pain from a purely biomedical perspective has evolved to a biopsychosocial perspective of pain. Intuitively, pain has long been recognized as an experience that […]

In the recent blog post some may feel it is remiss of Fernández-de-las-Peñas not to have at least considered the possibility that the clinical phenomena attributed to the so-called latent […]

There is a worldwide debate about whether trigger points (TrP) can be considered a relevant clinical entity with their own diagnostic criteria,[1] whether TrPs are just sensory and motor phenomena, […]

One of the main questions for us as pain researchers is how we can reduce pain.  We already know that painful stimuli such as electrical shocks involuntarily grab our attention […]

As we recently highlighted (see also here and here and M. Catley’s post) tactile acuity assessment has become an increasingly popular area of research in chronic pain. Most two point […]

Chronic post-surgical pain (CPSP) is a common and debilitating problem that occurs in a significant number of patients following surgery. Orthopedic surgeries are consistently associated with high postoperative pain, with […]

A couple of weeks ago, I had a mock interview for a new research fellowship with our national research council. In my rather sheltered life, these interviews are a rather […]