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…
Rough words from Neruda
I have been lucky enough to wander around Pablo Neruda’s house in Valparaiso, Chile. My host gave me “I Explain a Few Things” which is a…
Eating Explain Pain
On social media sites and in clinics all over, we often hear people saying “but I read Explain Pain,” as they list the therapies they have…
The self-lubricating animal story
One of our most popular blogs in 2015 was “We Are Self-Lubricating Animals”, which is now Neuroscience Nugget #49 in Explain Pain Supercharged. While reading…
Glistening, gleaming, gliding, lubricated joint surfaces
Words can be powerful stimulants. They can evoke ideas, feelings and sensory and motor imagery. “Whack, plop and buzz” – say them aloud and slowly. These…
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…
Explain Pain Target Concepts Worldwide
There has been much global interest in the notion of Target Concepts for Explain Pain education, particularly since using them in the recent Pain Revolution bike ride and educational…
