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…
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…
Cars, trucks, buses and metaphor
Cars and trucks In 2010 Steve Jobs, the late founder of Apple, likened iPads to cars and personal computers to trucks. Cars are smaller, more nimble,…
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…
Nugget #67: We grow like trees
Nugget #67 (of 71) in Explain Pain Supercharged. Quick, simple, powerfully reassuring – you’re resilient, strong, robust, adaptable… It goes something like this.. Nugget #67. We…
Grasping at pain and holding onto words
‘Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love’ Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being Another excerpt from Explain Pain Supercharged:…
Pictures of pain
A link between photography and pain? The speed of photographic technology and the near instant processing within modern digital cameras often obscures that fact that the…
Paracelse et l’Imagerie Motrice Graduelle
A good friend of NOI, Yannick Barde-Cabusson has previously translated our DIM SIM NOInote into French – Les DIMs et les SIMs. Yannick is back with a wonderful story…
‘Motion is Lotion’ has taken off
I don’t know where this memorable and marvellous metaphor came from but I have been using it since a post grad manual therapy degree in 1985.…
Wattle and Daub
Reaching for Yeats When times are uncertain we often reach for things that bring us solace. It may be listening to jazz or opera, reading an…
