Body in Mind

All the medics out there will be familiar with the third stanza of the Hippocratic oath: ‘I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability […]

Putting the Sydney Swans dasher Gary Rohan through the ‘credible evidence of danger and safety’ test I have taken most of an article published in Melbourne’s The Age, and Sydney’s  […]

The differences in the ways that boys and girls are expected to react to pain has long been the subject of folk wisdom and cultural idioms: Boys are expected to […]

Despite the popularity of exercise programmes that emphasise “core stability” for the prevention and treatment of chronic low back pain (LBP), numerous high quality randomised controlled trials (RCT) (e.g. here, […]

When a medical practitioner prescribes a medical treatment for pain, one of my first questions is whether there are side effects or other potential risks. I contend that every pain […]

Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood influences chronic pain development after motor vehicle collision, and this effect is moderated by a common genetic variation that influences HPA axis function. We all […]

When patients do not improve after surgery, the search for an answer can be complex and often disappointing. Valencia et al, in a well-performed, rather complex study, try to tease […]

Another in our Golden Oldies series:  Here is a superstar, well I guess he is sort of a pioneer/superstar, of evidenced based medicine, in an interview with a slightly cheesy […]

Going over the archives, Neil wrote this after finding a  review paper written by Professor Donald Marcus “Is Acupuncture for Pain a Placebo Treatment? An examination of the evidence“.  First published […]

Another in our golden oldie series celebrating BiM’s 5th birthday since it published it’s first blog post on 17th August 2009.  This one by Neil O’Connell. A sparkling, glittery threat […]