Body in Mind

When you expect an activity to evoke pain, when and why you decide to avoid or persist that activity? Until recently, this question has been mainly looked at from theories […]

I LOVE the Olympics. And didn’t London put on a stellar show – I have really enjoyed watching you Brits hold up the mirror and get rather surprised at how […]

And now you’re going to pay! Perceptions of injustice can emerge from a variety of conditions such as injury as the result of another’s actions – or in the case […]

Lorimer went to a splendid topical workshop at the World Congress on Pain. The workshop was about the relative contribution of periphal and central contributions to fibromyalgia. There were three […]

When we ask whether something in medicine is validated by science, the basic approach is to demonstrate biological plausibility (basic science research) as well as actual real-world efficacy (public health […]

Perceived knee instability is a common problem in knee osteoarthritis (OA), affecting approx. 70% of patients.[1] Since knee instability is associated with greater pain, poor physical functioning and life quality […]

Keeping up to date in chronic back pain research is a busy process and yet it is rare that a new paper really catches the eye. A while back a […]

Every patient you see is likely to have a pelvis.  Roughly 1/4 of women will have had some pelvic pain in the course of sport, childbirth, sex or urinating.  Men […]

Here is a nice video about neurones. That this sort of thing is popping up here and there is one of the reasons I think the internet is marvellous. I […]

This is an auspicious day. On this day in 2009 BiM published its first blog post. We have come a long way since a conversation a bit over three years […]