Body in Mind

Ever had a car accident? Did you feel a rush of stress at that moment? Whiplash is often the result of a car accident and causes a lot of physical […]

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 […]