Body in Mind

Pain captures our attention instantaneously, and makes it hard to pay attention to anything else. But is it possible to direct attention to pain voluntarily and in a specific manner? […]

Sensory cues in our environment continuously guide processing in the brain. A simple touch, tone or a flash of light shapes our thought process countless numbers of times per day. […]

In considering whether we can answer the question of whether there is a dose-response relationship in psychologically-based pain management for chronic pain problems, we need to step back a bit […]

If you’ve recently attended a pain conference, had a glass of wine with a pain boffin or spent time googling ‘pain’ you’ve no doubt come across the terms ‘neuroplasticity’ and […]

In general there is a lack of long-term success in treating people with persistent musculoskeletal pain and long-term anterior knee pain or patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS), is no exception [1].  […]

Just why does the touch of a loved one feel so good? The answer may have something to do with the fact that slow, gentle touches from another person (like […]

Many established values of palliative care practice (like symptom relief, truth-telling, alleviation of suffering) are based on research done outside of Africa, yet African patients may have different values when […]

We have all fallen over, haven’t we? Well you know that it hurts, and you can imagine this is also the case for those of an older age with an […]

The World Congress on Physical Therapy, which will be held in Singapore next May, has just announced the successful proposals for symposia. There were, apparently, a very large number of […]

Morley and colleagues[1] recently conducted a topical review that focuses on meta-analyses for evaluating psychological treatments for chronic pain. I enjoyed reading this opinionated and somewhat strongly worded call to, in […]