Up, down, in and around: the malleability of metaphor
Lorimer and I have finally left our new book Explain Pain Supercharged at the typesetters. It has been quite a trip over the last 5…
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Lorimer and I have finally left our new book Explain Pain Supercharged at the typesetters. It has been quite a trip over the last 5…
The October version of the Australian Physiotherapy Association’s monthly magazine InMotion features a discussion with Lorimer Moseley. Here he argues the importance of not just focusing on…
Some years ago I did a survey of 200 clinicians working with chronic pain to extract the language that patients used to express pain, and…
My patient had chronic foot pain (“severe multi-joint degenerative changes” on scans) and over a decade of swelling – she was improving really well with…
A wide ranging interview with Dr Natasha Curran, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine at University College London Hospitals, and Professor John Wood, a neuroscientist at UCL,…
When a rehab expert has a hip replacement Our good friend, recently retired physical therapist John Barbis, and I have previously written about his total…
Reading through references and reference lists for a previous post, I came across a short (open access) review article from Professor Joseph LeDoux entitled Evolution of…
Without lubrication our bodies will not function – your eyes won’t close, tendons won’t glide, joints won’t slide, sex just doesn’t happen, red blood cells…
Great journeys in biology One of biology’s great journeys is the flow of axoplasm – the “nerve juice” inside an axon. This nerve juice is…
As an educational strategy, providing contrasting information is a known and effective way to promote optimal learning. In the often delicate discussion about central sensitisation, providing some…