I recently did a talk for a bunch of GP’s. The brief I got was to make the really tough task of assessing someone in pain a little easier – ‘Perhaps you could tell them ...
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Five questions you should ask a patient in pain
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Don’t Drink in the Dark
Mosquitoes, or mozzies as we would call them here in Australia, come out at night. I know this in part because I have witnessed the massacre of my good friend Donaldo Becoccini on a fateful ...
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Faulty input makes you feel funny, but doesn’t hurt
There is a really attractive theory that has been used to explain why some people have chronic ongoing pain even though there is nothing wrong in the body part that hurts. The theory suggests that ...
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When the pain of carpal tunnel syndrome spreads, we should be thinking dorsal horn not malingering
Here is an important study. A couple of Italian Neurologists have investigated people with carpal tunnel syndrome who report that their pain has spread beyond the boundaries of the median nerve. Unfortunately, such reports are ...
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Mirror mirror in my brain, are you the answer to every-thaing
Jeisea alerted us to what I think is a superb blog post by Greg Hickok Center for Cognitive Neuroscience University of California, Irvine on mirror neurons, inspired by a study out of UCL in London and ...