Body in Mind

Taking you on a roller-coaster ride with left right neck rotation judgments

BiM — Mon, 06 May 2013 19:37:59 +0000

Many of you may be aware of the process for making left/right judgments of hands. For those who aren’t, I’ll try to sum it up in brief. When trying to identify whether a picture of a hand is a left hand or a right, it’s thought that we access the cortical maps of our hands. [...]

Riding for pain with a Viking Spirit

Lorimer Moseley — Thu, 02 May 2013 16:14:25 +0000

On what looks like a very fresh Danish weekend, some fearsome warriors put on their Ride for Pain jerseys and took on the elements. Watch the day unfold in the latest Danish entry for the Cannes short-film awards, in the 'Raising awareness of the world's most burdensome health issue' category.

Lives on hold

BiM — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:30:39 +0000

Low back pain can be a scary experience. When pain is perceived as being harmful or dangerous to the individual, it becomes something feared and avoided.But little is known in the literature about what people with chronic low back pain are fearful of and why.

A new direction for the fear avoidance model

BiM — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:46:19 +0000

Almost everyone suffers acute pain. Why do most recover, but an unfortunate few descend a downward spiral of social, personal and economic disadvantage? One hypothesis that has been interrogated for two decades is the fear avoidance model. Nonetheless, the case is not settled and some might argue that the fear avoidance model has not lived up to its considerable expectations.

Nature or nurture in low back pain

BiM — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:10:37 +0000

Clinical research into the management of low back pain has shown that the current available treatments offer, at best, only moderate effects. Our Spinal Research Group at the University of Sydney has been one of the pioneers in the field and most of these discouraging results have been produced by high quality randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews conducted by our group. Not surprisingly we thought that we needed a change in the course of direction of the spinal management boat

Another uber-successful UniSA Ride for Pain

Lorimer Moseley — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:00:41 +0000

Sunday April 7th saw hundreds of cyclists take to the River or the Hills on an absolutely glorious Adelaide autumn day. The mercury nudged 30C and the spirits were even higher. Over 250 cyclists took on the whole 100km and 100 of those participated in the first ever age-weight adjusted time trial up the infamous Corkscrew Road.

Constraint-Induced Movement therapy for long-term walking impairment in multiple sclerosis

BiM — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:58:59 +0000

Our research laboratory at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States has tested a distinguished form of physical therapy for persons with chronic walking difficulty from multiple sclerosis. The therapy is called Constraint-Induced Movement therapy, or CI therapy for short.

Pain at your finger tips

BiM — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:37:22 +0000

Here, Gian Domenico Alessandro Magnifico Fantistico Iannetti and Flavia Eleganta Bellisima Mancini talk us through pain at your fingertips. They did a very groovy experiment that, for the first time, uncovered the pattern of receptive fields for nociception at the finger tips.

Teaching people about pain – why do we keep beating around the bush pt 2

Lorimer Moseley — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:18:07 +0000

There is an emerging body of literature that suggests that we can change the way people understand their pain. We can reconceptualize pain in a way that makes clear the distinction between tissue damage, nociception and pain.

Teaching people about pain – why do we keep beating around the bush

Lorimer Moseley — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:04:43 +0000

A frank approach to interpersonal communication brings with it some challenges, but having to dig oneself out of a hole, created by strategically avoiding the truth, is not one of them.