This study involved almost 1500 patients living with chronic low back pain (CLBP) and not surprisingly they found that… “…physician empathy was strongly associated with satisfaction among [...]
Have you ever fed a baby and pretended to eat their food and say, “yum, delicious”, in order to manipulate them to eat thinking that the food is delicious. This phenomenon is not experienced just [...]
Do you know that a systematic review by the World Health Organization (WHO) has shown that a sense of loneliness is worse for one’s health than smoking 14 cigarettes a day? Did you know [...]
Let’s be clear that placebo effects are REAL and potentially as beneficial as “active” treatments in both short and long-term. Placebos are considered to be a conditioned response, where the [...]
“I’m afraid that exercise will make my pain worse as every time I try it, I pay for it for a few days afterwards” – A person dealing with chronic pain Before judging patients with chronic pain as [...]
To replace the label chronic unexplained pain, in the 1980’s the concept of central sensitization was proposed, then the 2010’s the term nociplastic pain became more popular and in the 2020’s we [...]
The Nocebo effect is at least partially responsible for the pain and suffering experienced by millions of people. Words spoken by a doctor or a therapist can have profoundly negative impact on [...]
The famous nursery rhyme, “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me”, is completely inaccurate as WORDS CAN AND DO HURT! Here are my top 10 most awful words told to many [...]
This incredible study published in the Journal of Pain demonstrated that pain can be experienced just by observing others. They gave non-painful electrical stimuli (like a gentle TENS) to the [...]
Anyone who is experiencing any kind of pain is experiencing some kind of a threat and our job as physiotherapists is to identify and reduce that threat. However, when it comes to chronic pain [...]
