April already!

It’s April and time for a change of season, sadly.  For us in the southern hemisphere it means we’re moving swiftly into autumn, with the leaves outside my house becoming yellow and fluttering to the ground, and the hint of chill in the air at night and early morning.  After a weekend away, it’s a [...]

A round-up of blogs to keep you busy

If you’re an occasional visitor to my blog, you may find plenty here already to keep you busy while I pop on over to Brisbane for the weekend to attend the PainLang forum to hear Harold Merskey and others talk about
“• an overview of the current state of play in research on pain language
• to [...]

March Pain-blog Carnival!

Today is the day! Head on over to How to Cope with Pain to review this month’s top blogs on pain. Always well worth a read and full of great information. Enjoy.

Finding positive solutions

Sometimes you stumble across something that you just can’t put better than it already is… Today’s one of those days, and I’ve found a website that summarises a whole bunch of coping strategies very neatly indeed.
Click this link to go to arthritis.about.com for a great range of pages covering topics like 10 ways to improve [...]

A randomized controlled trial of exposure in vivo for patients with spinal pain reporting fear of work-related activities

DOI:10.1016/j.ejpain.2007.11.001
The complex question of whether to integrate experimental therapeutic interventions into daily clinical practice is one that has caught many therapists out. A case in point is the use of laterality and visualised movements for CRPS where, in one clinic, it was found that of the 10 participants recruited, only 4 had actually adhered [...]

Managing low back pain: knowledge and attitudes of hospital managers

Now this is a really useful, although unsurprising, study of hospital line manager’s knowledge of the management of low back pain. Sad to say, Caitriona Cunningham, Catherine Doody, and Catherine Blake of UCD School of Physiotherapy and Performance Science, Dublin, Ireland, found that 54% (N=32) of the managers who responded to their survey believed [...]

The Birth of Color

The Birth of Color

Originally uploaded by John Suler

Happy Easter!!

Function

There are some very weird and crazy measures out there in pain assessment land… some of them take a little stretch of the imagination to work out how they were selected and what they’re meant to mean in the real world.
Functional measures are especially challenging - given that they are about what a person will [...]

Pain and the brain - Prof Allan Basbaum, UCTV

This really is a great video - and ‘cos it’s Easter I know you’ve got a weeny bit more time that you would normally have to spend gazing at a video, so hence you have two quality educational video’s for your learning pleasure.
And yes, it’s fine to eat both popcorn and chocolate eggs while sitting [...]

Time for TV!

If you’ve got some time, take a look at this video - OK it’s from 2004, but it’s quite an interesting recording about mindfulness and managing stress and pain…

Enjoy!