I feel very fortunate to have been invited to attend the 2018 NOI EP3 course in Melbourne as a science correspondent. At EP3 it was clear…
I have been cleaning out my desk and finding images that I collected for possible inclusion into books that I wrote last century. These images were…
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…
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 is a relatively new domain in the field of psychology. While Psychology in the 20th century looked at the relief of suffering, positive psychology…
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…
Explaining pain or indeed explaining any symptom or medical condition is a conversation. The critical element of healthy conversation is invitation – a feature…
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…
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…
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…
