Body in Mind

I was recently traveling in the UK. I travel light so as to make ridiculously tight deadlines – even stopping for my luggage could best laid plans lay waste.  I […]

Yet another addition to the bucketload of literature on mirror neurons – this one by folks at UCLA. These guys inserted electrodes into the accessible brain areas of 21 patients […]

You have almost certainly noticed that we grimace when we are in pain. But have you thought about that – I mean really thought about it? Why grimace?  Well, someone […]

Here is a final installment in our coverage of the Middlekoop paper.  First up, we had Neil O’Connell talking about elephants and then we had Peter O’Sullivan raising some provocative […]

Marienke van Middelkoop, and coworkers published a systematic review investigating the benefits of Exercise therapy for chronic nonspecific low-back pain (NSCLBP)[1]. They concluded that no exercise approach is superior to […]

It’s getting cramped in here and I can’t work out why. I’m inside a room labelled ‘how to treat low back pain’ and something enormous is taking up all the […]

Have a talent and enjoyment for inflicting prescribed doses of pain? Your dream job awaits. (Biology undergraduate required.) Contact: 555-8428 …as seen in classified ads. You are not supposed to […]

We found this looking through Medpedia’s video collection, here is Oliver Sacks talking about how the mind works in relation to the brain and perception.

I recently did a talk for a bunch of GP’s. The brief I got was to make the really tough task of assessing someone in pain a little easier – […]

Mosquitoes, or mozzies as we would call them here in Australia, come out at night. I know this in part because I have witnessed the massacre of my good friend […]