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- The sugar pill story — what the placebo effect is really trying to tell us
- Could I have neuroplastic symptoms? Look at how they behave.
- Why we hate uncertainty — and become detectives in our own bodies
- MRI and back pain: why your scan findings might not tell the whole story
- What holiday pain relief is actually telling you
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The sugar pill story — what the placebo effect is really trying to tell us
We have all heard of the placebo effect — the famous phenomenon where someone is given a sugar pill, told it is a powerful medication, and their symptoms dramatically improve. For a long time, the medical world treated this as a bit of an inconvenience.…
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Could I have neuroplastic symptoms? Look at how they behave.
One of the questions people often ask is, is my back pain neuroplastic? Or it could be pelvic pain, fibromyalgia, IBS, burning mouth, migraine, tinnitus and so on. Yes, the symptom matters, and it’s essential to get medically checked out and properly investigated. But when…
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Why we hate uncertainty — and become detectives in our own bodies
One of the hardest things about chronic pain is not just the sensation itself, but not knowing why it’s there. This is where uncertainty and chronic pain collide — the ache is only half the story; the not-knowing is the other half. Why is it worse…
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MRI and back pain: why your scan findings might not tell the whole story
MRI and back pain can seem to offer a simple cause-and-effect story. There it is in black and white: the disc bulge, the degeneration, the protrusion, the ‘wear and tear’. It seems official and final, and if you are already in pain, of course the…
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What holiday pain relief is actually telling you
Have you ever gone away for a weekend — or maybe a longer holiday — and noticed some genuine holiday pain relief, or even completely disappeared for a while? You probably noticed, of course — how could you not? But perhaps, like most people, you…