Many psychological therapies for acute pain focus on the painful stimulus, however, thinking beyond the stimulus that causes pain, to the body itself, may lead to novel clinical treatments in the future.
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Looks can be deceiving. A bigger hand hurts less.
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Does smoking hurt as well as harm? (or, as if you needed another reason)
I have a couple of mates who are veritable smoke-stacks. They love smoking but sort of hate being a smoker. I must confess that, at least within my community, smoking is now officially uncool and my mates are sick of people telling them good reasons to give up. Well, as if they needed another reason, here is evidence that smoking hurts.
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Comments from the Lager Man – is NMDAr upregulation 4ever
A little while ago, Paul Lagerman said this: ".... I was speaking to a colleague of mine who is a pain specialist and we were discussing central sensitisation. As I understand it there is a genetic change in the cell nucleus which causes an increase in the embedding of NMDA receptors in the cell synapse, oh that's already complicated writing that?
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Placebo 101. In three minutes.
Very occasionally, Heidi will show me something on youtube (or one of those Heidi-type sites) that is really very good. And this really is very good. The graphics are superb. The coverage of material is excellent. It is faithful to the evidence. It is engaging and it is narrated by an Australian.
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The King’s Speech – lessons for the modern clinician
What is the art and science of question-asking? I now have seen the movie The king's speech a couple of times, it is great in the movie when Geoffrey Rush (Lionel) goes right to the problem via the same inquiry strategy he learned from a well honed skill of asking questions.