In this time of COVID19, everything has changed, and I aim to provide some simple tips to help us have better conversations about pain.

Science isn’t a perfect system for understanding the world, it’s just the best we have.

Exercise is widely recommended for painful conditions, but many people in pain don’t respond well to exercise and we have no idea why....

The real issue with ‘pain as the fifth vital sign’ is that it reflects a persistent ignorance to its true nature.

It’s no secret that in the field of pain, we have been living with an unhappy marriage for a while. The specifics of the biomedical...

The human condition dictates that we ascribe meaning - to everything. To moralise is to comment on issues of right and wrong, typically...

What is fear? How is it linked to pain? What can it tell us about the outcomes we see in pain? Is it the big deal we have been lead to...

Metaphors are literary vehicles to make sense of the world, they bring to life what is otherwise unintelligible. Although phrases like...

This is the final instalment in a series reflecting on my attendance at the Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference 2019 (PODC2019). Read...

This is part 2 of a reflection on the Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference 2019 (PODC 2019). Read part 1 here. Overdiagnosis is closely...

This blog is a reflection on the recent Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference 2019 in Sydney, Australia. This is a concept far too complex...

There is currently a high degree of moral panic around social media. In my opinion, the push-back on social media, and the companies that...

Mobility, and the training for this, has enjoyed an explosion in popularity. Rightly or wrongly it has now become an ‘industry’ in its...

Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) and pain share many characteristics. For one thing, we’ve all experienced it at least once in our...

When some of you hear this blog title, you may cringe, or turn off in angst. What kind of dickhead blogs about politics and pain!? Well,...

Welcome to the last instalment of this series on Quantum Mechanics, focused on our perception – and therefore our patient’s perception –...

I am writing this to say sorry to you. I’m sorry for a lot of things and through this I hope you understand more about what you need to...

If you stuck around from the last blog, the first blog in this series related to Quantum Mechanics, then congratulations.. You made it...

You may be thinking, what the hell does Quantum Mechanics have to do with a health blog? Well, I’ll tell you! And if you stick with me,...

Whilst on the Oxfam Trailwalker, I heard this phrase a couple of times, ‘my physio bill,’ in various contexts, like ‘mate, if you fart in...