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Stopping ectopic activity at the DRG: Revolution in phantom limb pain or another red herring?

We were very fortunate to have Prof Srinivasa Raja and A/Prof Matthias Ringkamp write a post for us on the high profile papers that just came out in PAIN, both […]

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A Sore Spot: Central or peripheral generation of chronic neuropathic pain?

A key question, of significant therapeutic consequence, regarding the neural mechanisms of chronic neuropathic pain is whether it is maintained by input from the periphery or by independent, central (spinal […]

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Dry needling for myofascial pain. Does the evidence make the grade?

Last year, JOSPT published a systematic review and meta-analysis of dry needling for upper quarter myofascial pain. We thought it was a really well conducted systematic review, but we were […]

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Professor Michael Nicholas on adherence

The third and last in our series of  keynote speaker interviews by Australian Pain Society at their annual conference.  This one is by Professor Michael Nicholas on adherence. Michael Nicholas is Professor at the […]

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Dr Andrew Moore on Evidence and Pain

The second of three keynote speaker interviews by Australian Pain Society at their annual conference: Dr Andrew Moore on evidence and pain and the effectiveness of certain types of drugs. Dr Andrew Moore […]

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Jeff Mogil on the nature and nurture of pain

The Australian Pain Society recently held their annual conference (and what a conference it was) and interviewed their keynote speakers.  This is the first of three – Prof Jeff Mogil […]

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Kinesio Taping looks so cool, but is it effective?

I imagine that you have seen regular people and athletes with colourful tape stuck to their skin. It is called Kinesio Tape. This therapeutic tape was developed by a Japanese […]

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The Gruffalo’s Trial and some blatant advertising

The following blog is an adapted editorial that I published earlier this year in the journal – Pain and Rehabilitation: The Journal of the Physiotherapy Pain Association (PPA). The journal […]

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tDCS – negotiating the “rising tide” of hype.

By now most of you will have heard of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). It’s been all over the media in recent years and original research has been flooding through […]

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Changing beliefs in the face of adversity: preoperative pain education tested

Here at BiM it’s no secret that we are very interested in pain education – so called Explaining Pain or EP. Using examples from current thinking in pain science, EP […]

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