Archive for May, 2014

Fear and Fear Avoidance – Research Update -May 2014

Fear and Fear Avoidance – Research Update -May 2014

I though it about time to provide an update regarding some recent articles/publications relating to the topic of Fear and Fear Avoidance. As seen in an earlier post, Fear is an important psychosocial factor that we need to be aware of when assessing and treating patients. The new research continues to provide support for this. Wertli […]

Cold Hyperalgesia Testing

Cold Hyperalgesia Testing

I have often read in the literature the view that Cold Hyperalgesia is suggestive of more “severe” pain states and hence poorer prognosis. For example: Van Oosterwijck et al (2013) reported in their Systematic literature review on the evidence for central sensitisation in chronic whiplash that: The outcome of the processes involved in central sensitization […]

For the Patient – Why is my pain not getting better?

For the Patient – Why is my pain not getting better?

Since starting this blog I have been planning on posting information for patients to read and hopefully provide them some assistance.  So this post is written for patients and is based on the research evidencen presented in this blog thus far. I thought I might start with a post relating to a question I get […]