Our last rubber hand illusion paper attracted this comment from one of the reviewers: ‘it would take something very special to get yet another study on the rubber hand illusion into a journal like this one’...
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A haptic glove and a head-tracking software – illusory ownership induced without touch
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In response to ‘Is chronic pain a disease in its own right?’
Prof. Michael Cousins took some time to comment on 'Is chronic pain a disease in its own right'. It was so good that we didn't want it to get lost so we have made it a post in its own right. Here he is...
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How should we measure body awareness?
Here at BiM, we do a bit of research that investigates what we call ‘bodily awareness’. We have incorporated some of that research into a recent review paper on bodily illusions in health and disease. Humbly speaking, that is worth a read if you are interested in the bodily illusions stuff like the rubber hand illusion and the use of vision to distort bodily awareness. That is not the point of this post however. The point of this post is to highlight a very decent systematic review from a couple of years ago. The paper looks at...
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Is chronic pain a disease in its own right?
Professor Michael Cousins is leading the way in an impressive attempt to put pain on the Australian National Agenda. Now, I reckon this is a great thing, however, I am not quite on board for one of the driving messages of that campaign - that Chronic pain is a disease in its own right
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Could manual therapy be the narcotic of pessimists?
I am an optimist but I am thinking about jumping the fence - joining the dark side of pessimism and excessive dread. Maybe I am being a bit hasty? I know we all think that there is little benefit in pessimism and that we would rather have an optimistic patient come in the door than a pessimistic one. But isn’t there some advantage to pessimism? It seems there might be and it seems I am just a little more interested in getting a few more pessimistic patients through the door....