Body in Mind

We recently published a study on antibodies found in the blood of patients with longstanding Complex Regional Pain Syndrome [1]. Antibodies are substances produced by the body’s immune system. Their […]

Imagine you sprained your wrist. It’s aching, swollen and reddish. You want to move the hand to see if it is ok, but the fear of pain makes you hesitate […]

Last year I told you about a trial where we compared the brain’s activity during pain processing in the fMRI scanner before or after the application of an electrical brain […]

This is my second post based on a perspectives piece David Butler and I wrote for the Journal of Pain. You can get the gist of it by just reading […]

Anyone with tendon pain will tell you, it’s a pain in the butt (hamstring tendon pain that is). If it’s your Achilles tendon, the mornings are a struggle and you […]

Indulge me for a moment. Let’s say you just arrived at your physician’s office with a troubling symptom. She says “Hold on, I need to put you in the MRI […]

Neuroscience was clearly my favourite course at uni – I loved it so much I was learning for fun, not for exams. I don’t recall ever studying for a neuroscience […]

Our lab continues to be intrigued by the mechanisms that generate and drive skeletal pain. Painful skeletal conditions are highly prevalent and their impact is pervasive in both developing and […]

Perhaps you have already heard about leprosy in the past. Despite major efforts to eradicate leprosy, this infection still affects 250,000 new individuals per year [1]. The mode of transmission […]

In 1997, during the second International Forum on Primary Care Research for Low Back Pain (LBP) held in The Hague (Netherlands), a group of experienced clinical researchers gathered together and […]