Body in Mind

Opioids. We all know what they are and that there are a lot of them going around, but it wasn’t until I was asked to write this blog on the […]

These days, academics routinely talk about their work and place pictures of themselves on web sites like relief.news. However, the picture we choose to show the world may reveal more […]

In my general physiotherapy practice about one in five patients come with complex pain, disability and loss. I love sorting out the pieces of the puzzle that creates these situations. […]

The problem Back pain is something most of us will suffer at some point in our life. The good news is that we now understand a lot about how to […]

Ever put down a copy of Explain Pain, or some other highly valuable text, and asked ‘So how do I integrate all this stuff when I assess a patient and […]

Almost everyone knows about the phantom limb – the ‘imaginary’ limb that remains after loss of an arm or leg. Up until the middle of the 20th century the phantom […]

A Learning Theory Perspective on Pain-related Fear in Chronic Pain Every saga has a sequel – well in the previous blog post on learning and pain-related fear in chronic pain, […]

A Learning Theory Perspective on Pain-related Fear in Chronic Pain There is no doubt that there is heaps of wisdom in the Star Wars saga. For example, Master Yoda said […]

When it comes to treating someone in pain we have one way of knowing if our treatment has effected pain relief, and that is the patient’s verbal report.   Perhaps another […]

Genesis: To cut a very long story short, Smudj was born from a very dark period in my life. So dark that not a pin prick of light could be […]