Body in Mind

I remember sitting my folks down and sternly counselling them to make sure they learnt a completely novel skill once per decade, to ensure that their brain doesn’t turn to […]

It now seems clear that the brain changes in patients with chronic pain problems. However, this is probably where the consensus ends as there is still much that remains unclear […]

See you in 2010

Pain-blog Carnival How to Cope with Pain has a blog pain carnival for December to round off the year. Great work – a review of blogs (thanks for the mention) and some interesting […]

If you haven’t seen Vilayanur Ramachandran’s talk on what is happening in the Brain in Capgras syndrome, Phantom Limb Pain, and Synesthesia this is well worth a peek More thoughts on […]

From a biological perspective, I find CRPS very perplexing. So do many other people—the community of scientists that are pursuing better treatments, through a better understanding of the basic mechanisms, or by developing better animal models of CRPS, or […]

What is Complex Regional Pain Syndrome? Well, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is exactly that Complex: Many, many different problems have been identified in people with CRPS. These problems can […]

Still more evidence that we are fearfully and wonderfully complex. This study from Stuart Derbyshire’s group at Birmingham, UK, and published in the premier pain journal, PAIN, involved two parts. […]

We were chuffed and impressed to see the slideshow about amputees learning impossible movements on Mike Nelson’s extreme human performance blog. We agree that our study has implications for elite […]

G. Lorimer Moseley Department of Physiotherapy, The University of Queensland, and Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia. Abstract Background: People with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) take longer to […]