Integrating Explain Pain and Cognitive Functional Therapy in persistent low back pain
Reflections on EP3 at the G I had the fantastic opportunity to be invited to attend EP3 at the G (Melbourne Cricket Ground) as a science…
Positive Psychology
Positive Psychology is a relatively new domain in the field of psychology. While Psychology in the 20th century looked at the relief of suffering, positive psychology…
A reflection on EP3 at the ‘G
I attended the Melbourne NOIEP3 course in 2018 with tremendous interest, anticipation and excitement. My PhD is in lower back pain related to lifting. An area…
The Healthy Pain Conversation
Explaining pain or indeed explaining any symptom or medical condition is a conversation. The critical element of healthy conversation is invitation – a feature…
Phantom Pain
Have you ever used the example of phantom limb pain to explain the idea of a ‘map in your brain’ and ‘brain smudging’? I do so…
The ‘Bayesian brain’ for beginners, by way of placebo
A recent Topical Review in Pain provides an interesting and gentle introduction to notions of Predictive Processing and the ‘Bayesian brain’ by way of medically unexplained…
All sorts of breasts required
This is a final call for participants for an important project about breast pain and breast cancer. I will be brief. More than 50% of women…
Explain Pain Assessment Visualised – Question 5
Next question from the Explain Pain Assessment Eight Great Questions – Where does the learner currently seek health knowledge? Easy to ask in a number of ways, this…
Neuroscience nugget #45: Let the light in
I can recall an elderly neurologist presenting an undergraduate lecture in the early 70’s on peripheral nerve problems. I remember it because of a comment “somehow…
The unfortunate trivialisation
An excerpt from Explain Pain Supercharged Chapter 3: Supercharge your pain biology: “Patrick Wall, arguably the most influential pain scientist of the modern age, a committed anarchist and proficient…
