I met a fellow called Max. He was impressive with his command of the facts. He does some cool studies. He’s not one of the Luddies. And certainly not one of the hacks. That is ...
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A Reflection on the Mirror Box
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It is not your schnoz that matters
Solving the take-away coffee induced black-tipped nose problem A little while ago we ran an experiment of sorts to test the hypothesis that the length of one’s nose was positively related to the risk of getting ...
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Chronic Low Back Pain and Advanced Mathematics
It is tempting, in research, to apply the normal rules of summation – where adding one treatment that you think is effective to another treatment that you think is effective should give you a combined ...
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Teaching people about pain – a kind of position paper
Some time ago, I wrote this paper, at the request of the journal Physical Therapy Reviews, on reconceptualising pain. It is a little old now but it has come to be a bit of a ...
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Misinformed Consent? What not to tell a patient with back pain
We just came across a fancy patient information form that was given to a patient after an assessment by a clinician. The form just blew our minds (but not in a good way) because it ...