About 25 years ago the ideas around evidence-based practice consolidated and quickly became the paradigm under which healthcare professionals were expected to work. While the change in practice model had its teething-problems and there continue ...
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Michael’s marvellous microglia in mice and (not just) men talk at NeuPSIG 2015, Nice.
Michael Salter gave a fascinating plenary talk at NeuPSIG 2015, on the role of microglia in chronic pain. Microglia are currently a hot topic in pain research, but the world of neuroimmune interactions is pretty ...
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Decoding Fake Pain
How easy is it to fake that you are in pain? This question has interested people for a long time, particularly those who have to make decisions about compensation claims related to chronic pain (where ...
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Expanding placebo “responses” and the importance of language
It seems the possibility that “placebo responses” are getting bigger is newsworthy. A new systematic review just published in the journal PAIN[1] has been receiving a fair amount of attention. The headline finding is that the ...
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Could your state of mind influence CRPS recovery?
We know that recovery from Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is variable: whilst some people make a relatively full recovery in a few months, others are left with pain and symptoms that persist for years ...