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…
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…
