The genetics of dystonia in CRPS – not what we were expecting

5 August 2010 CRPS

The genetics of dystonia in CRPS – genes don’t seem to predispose or cause dystonia in CRPS. This doesn’t mean that there is no genetic contribution, but it does mean that the genes that underpin familial dystonia are not important in CRPS-dystonia.

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Is CRPS an auto-immune disease

3 August 2010 Bloggers

Intravenous Immunoglobulin in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Andreas Goebel on the results of his latest clinical trial .Just imagine the causes of some chronic pains are completely different from what you had thought. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome is a severe pain which persists after limb trauma. You are unlucky if you develop this nasty condition, [...]

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Making Sense of Sense

30 July 2010 NeuRA

The roads less travelled – four paths to get from touch to the body I am studying medicine and as part of our course we do an Independent Learning project. I am doing mine in the Body in Mind research group here at NeuRA.  My first task is to review a key paper in the [...]

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When showing it doesn’t work doesn’t work

28 July 2010 Clinical

I went to Melbourne on the weekend.  To break the time-honoured Moseley tradition of not working on weekends requires some convincing and I was convinced by the nature of the crowd – truly interdisciplinary – and the proximity of venue – a mere 1000 km away.  I went to two talks, so I could get [...]

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The morality of magic kisses: Ethics and placebo in physiotherapy

26 July 2010 BiM Team

When my daughter hurts herself, her placebo of choice is a “magic kiss”. This therapeutic intervention must be applied with care specific to the area of injury. Anecdotal evidence suggests that it is very effective. I use placebo freely at home but is it right to do this in the clinic? In a recent post [...]

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What did you expect?

22 July 2010 Back pain

Hands-up who thinks a patient’s expectations influence how well they do in treatment? Nearly everyone? That’s no surprise. Research recently published by a group in the US reported on the relationship between expectation and outcome in a sample of back pain patients receiving physiotherapy.

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We Believe Because We Evolved That Way part two

20 July 2010 Guest article

Why we have a placebo effect – Part II By Peter Blanch continued…. Bruce Hood (Hood 2009) in his book “Supersense: why we believe in the unbelievable” makes a couple of quite pertinent points. He outlines a simple experiment he uses in his presentations where he presents to the audience ‘the pen’ (he admits to stretching [...]

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We Believe Because We Evolved That Way part one

19 July 2010 Guest article

Why we have a placebo effect – Part I By Peter Blanch For a long time now, I have stood with my feet precariously placed on two icebergs that sometimes slowly drift apart and sometimes drift back together again (obviously increasing and decreasing my sensation of precariousness).  The first iceberg is where I started as [...]

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Paul the Psychic Octopus: A watery lesson in understanding clinical evidence

15 July 2010 BiM Team

So the World Cup justifiably goes to Spain and it seems that Paul, the now world famous psychic octopus, predicted the results.  In fact Paul demonstrated a seemingly legendary clairvoyant ability.  Wikipedia informs us that he predicted the outcome of all of Germany’s games and the final with unerring accuracy. You may not have realised [...]

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Lorimer coming to the USA August & September

14 July 2010 Courses

Lorimer is coming to the US to teach some Explain Pain courses in August and September – teaching in Las Vegas, Nevada, Des Moine, Minneapolis, Boston and New York City.

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