Body in Mind

What to do about whiplash? Trials have historically produced disappointing results across the board for our management strategies. As is so often the case the interpretation of those results can […]

“How many senses do you have?”  Probably, most of us would respond with the traditional five senses we were taught in school: smell, sight, hearing, touch and taste.  However, there […]

Mirror-touch synesthesia is a phenomenon in which the mere observation of another person being touched causes the observers to experience a touch on their own body. The condition is quite […]

Some philosophical observations can raise interesting neuroscientific questions. This is the case of the so-called “Aristotle’s illusion”. Aristotle (in Metaphysica IV, 6) first noticed that by crossing the fingers, one […]

Customer satisfaction is a fairly useful metric for business. Most business owners will say that the relationship between a positive customer experience and profit is evident. In the health care […]

Imagine yourself suffering from lower back pain, wanting to grasp a newspaper from the floor. While trying to reach it, you might be afraid to feel pain. As a result, […]

The Fear Avoidance Model (FAM) has been a big player in the recent history of chronic pain research and clinical practice. Simply put, the premise of the model is that […]

Many studies trying to unravel the chronic pain picture suggest that differences in central pain-transmitting systems may explain chronic pain. Our body disposes of several internal mechanisms to regulate the […]

Explaining pain is a big part of how we treat patients with chronic pain. Through education, we try to change those inaccurate pain beliefs that contribute to the maintenance of […]

We recently published a paper on the function of the primary somatosensory cortex in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). The primary somatosensory cortex (S1) is a region of the cortex –the […]