Wear & Repair: an Osteoarthritis knee story using healthy linguistics
This is an exploration of the possible impact of the linguistic elements behind a persons experience of osteoarthritis. In essence, we’re looking at how healthcare providers…
Degenerative disc disease – a non-nourishing potentially potent linguistic construction
Let’s dissect the common term/diagnosis ‘degenerative disc disease’. It is a triple alliteration with the three D’s. It also has an internal rhyme based around the “i’s”,…
The anaphoric clinician
The best Explain Pain messages are memorable, persuasive, easily retrievable and behaviour changing. Repetition is one of the most powerful rhetorical skills but of course you…
The Psychologist, the Neuroscientist and the Educationalist ride again – five years of EP3
The EP3 seminar is now in its 5th year and for the first time we are taking it to beautiful Brisbane, Queensland. EP3 has allowed Lorimer…
Fifteen years bone on bone
I have just been in Tasmania with Pain Revolution. This is a week-long education and cycling tour with a rural focus, aimed at health professionals and…
Noise as pain maker
In the assessment of a chronic pain or stress sufferer, we often seek information on “the things you hear, see, smell, touch, and taste”. Some…
Latent pain in total hipsters
Delayed pains post-injury – or latent pain – seem quite common and can be hard to integrate clinically. You can never really be sure that a latent…
Yet another way to injure a disc?
The folklore surrounding intervertebral disc injury has inspired some wildly descriptive and unhelpful language. Slipped disc wins by a mile, but you can also blow a…
Dare to understand in Vancouver
Last week I was invited to have lunch with the staff at a physiotherapy and multidisciplinary clinic in Vancouver –Tall Tree Physiotherapy. While the meatballs in…
Pain, Che and the forthcoming revolution
I saw this photograph in an exhibition in Havana. It’s a class of medical students in the faculty of anatomy in Buenos Aires in 1948. I…
