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What are the factors for knee pain 26 Aug 2013 | 11:32 pm
Being female, reporting general health symptoms, having widespread pain, familial osteoarthritis and morning stiffness are all factors for knee pain
Stress response in chronic whiplash 22 Aug 2013 | 11:43 pm
People with chronic whiplash have a hypersensitive nervous system and a dysfunctional internal pain inhibitory mechanism. Are these effects on the stress system and the pain system unrelated or are th...
Targeted therapy for acute whiplash gets it in the neck (again) 19 Aug 2013 | 11:58 pm
What to do about whiplash? Trials have historically produced disappointing results across the board for our management strategies. As is so often the case the interpretation of those results can be br...
Balancing the somatosensation 15 Aug 2013 | 11:44 pm
Most scientists consider the vestibular system as an organ for balance, orientation and control of eye movements. In some recent studies, we suggested a wider view, in which vestibular signals also in...
Body in Mind researchers running a bush marathon to help Indigenous Aussie kids 12 Aug 2013 | 11:40 pm
Why this cause? Well until our two English visitors arrived, they had no idea of the disadvantage and limited opportunities faced by kids in many of Australia's Indigenous communities. They hope, that...
Maybe all of us are synesthetic? Insights into the mechanisms of mirror-touch synaesthesia 9 Aug 2013 | 12:15 am
Mirror-touch synesthesia is a phenomenon in which the mere observation of another person being touched causes the observers to experience a touch on their own body. The condition is quite rare, with a...
Aristotle’s illusion in focal hand dystonia 5 Aug 2013 | 11:38 pm
We applied Aristotle’s illusion paradigm to investigate the impairment of somatosensory processing in patients with focal hand dystonia, in whom the relation between fingers can be altered by the pres...
Predicting Patient Satisfaction 2 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
Customer satisfaction is a fairly useful metric for business. In the health care industry, many will argue that patient satisfaction is directly associated with better outcomes and health status. In a...
Expecto ergo sentio – I expect therefore I feel 30 Jul 2013 | 12:50 am
In our recently published paper we examined if fearful anticipation of pain leads to the prioritization of somatosensory sensations at body locations where pain is expected to occur.
Fear, disability, chickens and eggs 26 Jul 2013 | 12:11 am
The Fear Avoidance Model has been a big player in the recent history of chronic pain research and clinical practice. But a model doesn’t stand or fall on plausibility alone. What we need to know is gi...
