Body in Mind

While working with chronic neuropathic pain sufferers over the last few years, quite often I was asked if there is a “pain center” within our body, particularly in the brain, […]

Working as a physical therapist, I have sometimes struggled to understand why some of my patients with seemingly similar musculoskeletal injuries recover and why others develop chronic pain and disability. […]

BiM review of a J Pain paper by Alban Latremoliere and Clifford J. Woolf (AKA L&W) By Kerwin Talbot & Lorimer Moseley Another of our series on the Journal of […]

Here we are again – summer time on top of the world and with the mercury due to top 44C this week, we are well and truly gearing up for […]

A person, let’s say his name is Pat, views a staircase in front of him; he is delivering a parcel (Postman Pat) and must climb three flights of stairs to […]

This blog post relates to an article entitled Predictors of Suicidal Ideation in Chronic Pain Patients: An Exploratory Study that Dr. Manon Choinière, Dr. Warren Nielson and I have recently […]

Information and new findings about pain bombard us from all directions and keeping abreast of them is a major challenge. Another challenge is integrating this knowledge for clinical applications. While […]

Graded motor imagery (GMI) for the treatment of chronic pain has certainly been generating much interest recently. Earlier this year, I was lucky enough to publish a systematic review and […]

The Journal of Pain’s 4th most downloaded article in 2013 (Wilsey ey al 2013) is a study of vaporised cannabis for the treatment of neuropathic pain.[1]  Thirty-nine patients, with various […]

The Journal of Pain recently announced the five most downloaded articles of 2013. Our very own Jane Bowering was on the podium with the third most downloaded paper (and the […]