Body in Mind

One last offering from the Neuropathic Pain Meeting in Nice – first sent as an email to the NeuPSIG special interest group. To join NeuPSIG, click here. PCP – CNS or […]

A systematic review and meta-analysis has just come out in The Journal of Pain looking at the efficacy of “movement representation techniques” for people with limb pain. Now, you might […]

My recent Journal of Pain article (Niederstrasser et al., 2015) can be summarised in one really long, cryptic and almost unintelligible sentence, which if you bear with me, I will […]

Recently, I had the opportunity to complete a Cochrane systematic review on the effects of cognitive-behavioural therapy on pain, disability, psychological factors, and the quality of life among individuals with […]

We know that there are sex and gender differences in the perception and experience of pain, with women generally reporting more painful episodes across their lifespan than men. While reasons […]

About 25 years ago the ideas around evidence-based practice consolidated and quickly became the paradigm under which healthcare professionals were expected to work. While the change in practice model had […]

Michael Salter gave a fascinating plenary talk at NeuPSIG 2015, on the role of microglia in chronic pain. Microglia are currently a hot topic in pain research, but the world […]

How easy is it to fake that you are in pain? This question has interested people for a long time, particularly those who have to make decisions about compensation claims […]

It seems the possibility that “placebo responses” are getting bigger is newsworthy. A new systematic review just published in the journal PAIN[1] has been receiving a fair amount of attention. The […]

We know that recovery from Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is variable: whilst some people make a relatively full recovery in a few months, others are left with pain and […]