“The way I look back at physio now, was that it was just the hell I had to go through in order to eventually get to pain services”. Those were the words a patient with ...
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Embedding psychology into physiotherapy for low back pain – why is it so difficult to change our minds?
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Do words matter when you’re a woman with pelvic pain talking to your clinician?
How do you describe a pain like dysmenorrhea, or painful sex, or vulval pain, or the pain of endometriosis, to someone who has never experienced these things, and possibly never will? Around 20% of women ...
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Can we use mobile devices for left/right judgement tasks?
The left/right judgment task (LRJT)[1] is enjoying popularity in clinical practices to assess and manage people with persistent pain. The LRJT has compelling theoretical underpinnings that have been tested in many painful [e.g. 2-5] and ...
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What does high value care for musculoskeletal pain look like?
A middle aged patient with slow onset shoulder pain was concerned about the results of a left shoulder ultrasound that showed a partial tear in her rotator cuff. Since the result she had taken to ...
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Heard It Through the Grapevine: Can Music Ease Pain?
Researchers at the 2018 IASP World Congress on Pain in Boston discussed how music affects the brain, and its potential as a pain treatment.