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...

This blog is directed predominantly at the patient and will explore why the idea of ‘injury prevention’ may not be quite what you think. ...

Only about half of all people return to the same level of competitive sport after an ACL reconstruction and the rate of re-injury in...

I am a fan of you returning to the place that you normally train so will make every effort to make sure your coach is involved in everything

Most of the issues I deal with when managing people with injuries stem from not having the right information. You can find the heart of a...

Presenting the problem Hopefully by now you know that reconstruction is not the only way to deal with ACL injuries. There is robust...

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,...