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Around 20 years ago, researchers started asking questions about the relationship between sensorimotor incongruence (SMI) and chronic non-specific pain conditions. Initially the relationship was raised within the framework of phantom […]
Learn More >Many of you will be asking why this topic? I had an accident in 2012 where I was diagnosed with whiplash/fibromyalgia. I tried physiotherapy and conventional medicine, all the while […]
Learn More >Catastrophizing has long been implicated in many poor outcomes in chronic pain-related conditions in both adults and children [3,4,11,12,14,15,18,20,22,24,29]. Scholars have called for interventions to reduce catastrophizing in children with […]
Learn More >There is considerable evidence demonstrating the multi-dimensional nature of non-specific low back pain (NSCLBP)[1], and recent guidelines and mission statements recommend a broad bio-psychosocial (BPS) approach to NSCLBP [2,3]. However, […]
Learn More >Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) can improve quality of life and functioning in people with chronic pain. However, many people cannot access CBT in a timely manner, or at all. Simply put, […]
Learn More >It’s common knowledge that pain problems and mental illness will affect many of us over the course of our lives [1-4]. Comorbidity between pain and mental illness is often seen […]
Learn More >After the long and winding road towards diagnosis, many children with chronic pain conditions improve with standard outpatient therapy approaches such as a combination of physical and cognitive behavioral therapies […]
Learn More >Pain emerges when we conclude the body is under threat and in need of protection.[1] This conclusion depends on the integration of the predicted state of the body with information […]
Learn More >Low back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide [1] and up to 90% of people will experience low back pain at some point in their life [2]. The […]
Learn More >A paper published in May this year by Coulter et al. (2018) was followed by two letters to the editor (Gibson et al. 2018, O’Keeffe, et al. 2018). The original […]
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