Pain Professional Practices Group - MTABC

08/18/2017

Treating based on structure and imaging is not well supported. Treat the person, not their structure.

The problem with a (entirely) structural based approach to low back pain…. Is there may actually be no problem. This sounds like channeling the girl from the Matrix proclaiming there is no spoon, b…

08/16/2017

I’m using this blog post as an opportunity to vent about an annoyance of mine. In my decade-plus career in this profession, I have noticed a common belief among...

06/06/2017

Massage and manual therapy suffers the same problems of not adopting evidence into practice behaviour.

Physical therapy research is constantly developing and progressing. But does evidence based physical therapy transfer to clinical practice?

04/25/2017

Yngve Roe1 and Daniel Major2   Associated professor, Institute of Physiotherapy, Oslo University College of Applied Sciences (HIOA) and clinical physiotherapist; e-mail: Yngve.roe@hioa.no PhD Resea…

02/28/2017

I’ve finally been lulled from my blogging hibernation! I first started sniffing the air when a discussion broke out between two of my favori...

02/17/2017

Prof Moseley explains pain in a very straightforward and entertaining way.

02/17/2017

A key to adopting evidence and pain science into your practice is to understand the myths and critically re-think what it is manual therapists think they are doing.

The 4 Myths of Massage We live in an exciting age of information wherein anything we need to know is only a couple of clicks away; knowledge has never been more within our immediate grasp. There's only one problem: along with this easily accessible information comes an abundance of misinformation. T...

02/03/2017

Spinal imaging findings are normal and not to be feared. There is much more to pain than what is happening 'inside' your back.

Aren't these statistics about pain and imaging results SO important to get out to the world? Too few people know the truth about this science, and it's important enough that we're getting on our bikes to go and share it!

This is the percentage of people of different ages who do not have any back trouble but do have these positive signs on scans. We're fear busting these results, doing it on wheels, and we hope we can meet some of you along the road in April www.painrevolution.org

02/01/2017

"It's a crisis of pain, of dependence, of addiction."

12/30/2016

New blog post from Alice Sanvito on how massage works

My late Russian Massage teacher Zhenya Kurashova Wine asked this question at the beginning of my first class with her. We sat and looked at her blankly. No one raised their hand, no one offered an answer. What kind of a question was this, anyway? We never thought about this. You know, you put your h...

12/13/2016

It can feel more painful in winter when you hurt yourself compared to in summer, but is there any biological reason for this?

11/22/2016

Treating patients not their tissues. Worth watching.
https://youtu.be/tqTWpesaRPw