Research into the role of the brain and mind in chronic pain
MotorImpairment Blog
- Measuring upper extremity function across the adult lifespanAs we age, we generally experience a progressive decline in the ability to use our arms and hands for normal daily activities such as using cutlery to cut food, brushing our teeth and buttoning up a shirt (Shumway-Cook & Woollacott, 2016). The ability to complete everyday activities with our upper extremities relies on a complex […]
- Translating walking parameters into meaningful biomarkers for benchmarking pathological movement behaviourWalking is regulated and coordinated through complex control mechanisms within the human sensory motor system, allowing individuals to adapt to both internal and external challenges and perturbations (Full et al., 2002). During this regulation to achieve stable walking, natural fluctuations (i.e. movement variability) are present between strides in both the temporal (e.g. stride interval) and […]
Chronic back pain – when research comes out of the blue
Something potentially amazing just happened. I’m not being flippant, a randomised controlled trial (RCT: still the only research method that can genuinely tell whether a treatment works) from China has just produced results in chronic back pain that can only be described as amazing. The temptation is to say “unbelievable”. This trial published in … [Read more...]