Research into the role of the brain in chronic pain
Mindfulness is, it seems, in fashion. Every month there seems to be a new TV show or talkback hour on its wondrous curative powers. It made it into our Christmas Dinner Conversation and I am waiting for the mindfulness-branded t-shirts and environmentally friendly canvas shopping bags to emerge. Is it really that good? Well, fortunately there … [Read more...]
Guidelines are so in aren't they? I guess this is what happens when evidenced based medicine begins to take hold. Broadly speaking, I reckon it is a good thing. There are caveats of course - see the furore that can emerge when powerful groups don't like the guidelines - all the more likely when there is not much evidence around on which to base … [Read more...]
Professor Troels Jensen's clever group of researchers have published an interesting paper in the European Journal of Pain. We were thinking about writing a little spiel on it so you can get the idea and then we thought - what about asking the authors? So we did. Fortunately for us, Lise Gormsen, who has now got her PhD via this work, kindly … [Read more...]
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