Have you ever had your scalp massaged with an orgasmatron? And then tried to re-instate the pleasure yourself but it just did not feel the same?
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Body posture influences tactile sensation during the preparation of movement
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Should we turn away people with CRPS?
Two foods I love eating regularly are tuna and ice cream. Thankfully, I have a firm grasp of the concept that some things just weren’t made for mixing. I contend that my tuna-ice cream metaphor might help us to understand why some interventions treating CRPS may not be working.
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No better than the flip of a coin?
Imagine my crinkled nose of disdain to find this commentary in July 2012 regarding the functional outcome of treatment for vulvar pain (vulvodynia). Roughly 44% of the patients in the two studies reviewed still had pain with sex at the end of the follow-up period.
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Central Hypersensitivity in Chronic Shoulder Pain
For almost half of people afflicted with subacromial impingement syndrome medical treatment is not successful and they will continue to have shoulder pain. It is not known why some people have pain long past the time that healing should take but recent research shows this may be due to hypersensitivity.
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Mind and machine: moving from rehabilitation to restoration?
Many futuristic movies and books depict humans with upgrades. Extra limbs or special abilities are common and some even create a hybrid of human and machine as in Robocop. This post will look at just how real that hybrid is and how technology and neuroscience are allowing this to happen.