4. Why am I excited? First up, one of the great liberators of being a scientist is that we are not just permitted to change our minds, we are actually required to do so when ...
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Explaining Pain for Acute Back Pain – reflections on Traeger et al. part 2
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Explaining Pain for Acute Back Pain – reflections on Traeger et al. part 1
The PREVENT trial published recently in JAMA Neurology seems to have created a storm. If views and tweets and general social noise are your metric, then this one weighs in pretty well – over 15K ...
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Arts workshops as a space for pain communication
The second part of the Communicating Chronic Pain project involved a series of arts workshops undertaken with participants with pain, their carers and interested clinicians [1] (for the first part go here). Qualitative research on ...
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Visual Expressions of Chronic Pain on Social Media
If chronic pain is so difficult to communicate in language, what understanding might we gain from using methods that are not focused primarily on words? The Communicating Chronic Pain project examined non-textual modes of expressing ...
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Aerobic exercise and pain perception in people with headache – what’s the latest?
Now the paper is actually called “Has aerobic exercise effect on pain perception in persons with migraine and co-existing tension-type headache and neck pain? A randomised controlled, clinical trial” and I confess I did have ...