Clik here to view.
‘The mystery of chronic pain’ TED Talk #pain
Elliot Krane talks about his 20 years experience of working with individuals who suffer complex pain. He describes a common scenario that I see in my clinic, whereby the pain has persisted beyond the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CRPS Bugle 13 Aug #CRPS
Welcome to the latest CRPS Bugle ++++++++ Acute and chronic phases of complex regional pain syndrome in mice are accompanied by distinct transcriptional changes in the spinal cord. Mol Pain. 2013 Aug...
View ArticleClik here to view.
More on neuroplasticity | Let’s learn, change and grow #neuroplasticity...
Professor Micheal Merzenich talks about how we can use our knowledge of neuroplasticity to thrive and grow. This is certainly a neuro-characteristic that is potent and valuable in rehabilitation from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Painstaking research – tackling chronic pain
From the Wellcome Trust, here’s an interesting blog looking at some of the research for chronic pain by Mun-Keat Looi. ‘Pain is an important warning system in our bodies, but what if it never stops? It...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CRPS Bugle | #CRPS | Body perception
Welcome to the latest Bugle that focuses upon body perception, so often affected in CRPS. Body perception should form part of the assessment in my view, as the construction of this sense by the brain...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pain is a construct | #pain #neuroscience
Pain is a construct that is unique to our own brain hence the individual nature of the experience. By definition, according to the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), pain is a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CRPS Bugle 17th Sept 2013 | #CRPS
Here are some of the Cochrane Reviews relating to CRPS and chronic pain: Local anaesthetic sympathetic blockade for complex regional pain syndrome. Stanton TR, Wand BM, Carr DB, Birklein F, Wasner GL,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pain metaphors (1)
A recent comment that I thought summed up several dimensions of the pain experience: ‘my life is contracted’. Does anyone relate to this? There can be a physical sense to ‘contraction’ whereby limited...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CRPS Bugle 10/10/13 | #CRPS
Welcome to The CRPS Bugle–a selection of recent papers to peruse: Clin J Pain. 2013 Nov;29(11):e33-e34. Favorable Outcome of an Acute Complex Regional Pain Syndrome With Immunoglobulin Infusions....
View ArticleClik here to view.
CRPS Bugle | March 2014
Welcome to the March CRPS Bugle, an update on the latest research into complex regional pain syndrome, also known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD). Visit our clinic site here for information about...
View Article
