A while back I wrote a piece about Consciousness and Pain, in which I argued that consciousness might be the key ingredient for pain. I even tried my hand at a bit of maths, with this little equation (not to be taken too exactly): pain = nociception + consciousness.
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What’s in a name? Nociception by any other name will hurt, or not hurt, just as much
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Of shiny pictures and poorer outcomes: Spinal MRI and back pain
Diagnosing low back pain is a nightmare. It established that apart from the 15% of back pain cases which can be attributed to a specific spinal pathology, the majority of cases fall under the unsatisfactory umbrella label of “non-specific low back pain”
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Can photoshop make my bottom smaller?
I had my annual viewing of Susan Boyle on Britain’s got talent this morning. Then I came across this amazing demonstration of what photoshop can do. Is it possible that if you think you look a particular way, your body changes the way it works to match that?
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Left or Right Brain Game
Left or Right Brain Game. I reckon that all great scientific discoveries are judged on two criteria: firstly the idea must be truly original and useful to human-kind and secondly it must permeate into popular culture. I’ll cite two examples...
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Maintenance spinal manipulation: The cherry-pickers quandary
A closer look at a new study that purportedly demonstrates a real benefit to spinal manipulation in chronic back pain and seems to validate that controversial practice of regularly seeing patients between flare-ups for a “quick click” to keep the spine tip-top.