PainSci Updates
The blog and newsletter: nuggets of pain science news and insight, plus content announcements and highlights
Last post #1206 on Dec 6, 2024
The PainScience blog and newsletter is a sideshow, the “director’s commentary” on the real content, the core content: a beefy library of many dozens of featured articles and ten books that I never stop upgrading.
The blog is where I share excerpts from new work, float new ideas that are destined to become articles or book chapters, science news, and odds and ends that catch my interest as I work. A paid subscription — membership — includes extra posts, audio versions, access to members-only sections around the site, and a full-text RSS feed.
Or get premium posts
& support the salamander with PainSci Membership. See also “better” and “awesome” plans.
You can also subscribe with RSS ❐, or see the 10% of my posts allowed by social media’s stupid algorithms: Facebook, Threads, Instagram, Bluesky, Twitter.
This page lists all 1206 posts (about 412,500 words, or 99 hours of reading). Recent posts are always featured on the site updates page, along with updates to core content.
- Goodbye and good riddance, Google Analytics » Dec 6, 24
- Can creatine treat its own insomnia side effect? » Dec 5, 24
- Weird health claims about magnesium » Dec 3, 24
- Shockwave therapy: ultrasound reborn! 🔈 » Nov 30, 24
- STUDY: Vibration therapy for a disease triggered by vibration » Nov 27, 24
- Overestimating “success rates” (for dry needling) » Nov 23, 24
- The awful power of cramps demonstrated by rabies » Nov 18, 24
- STUDY: Exercise eases inflammatory back pain—but why? » Nov 15, 24
- Q&A: Beyond kegels for pelvic organ prolapse prevention » Nov 13, 24
- Lose belly fat, hurt less (because metabolism) » Nov 12, 24
- Exercise is anti-inflammatory medicine for injuries (Member Post) 🔈 » Nov 8, 24
- The myth of feminine fragility » Nov 4, 24
- You’ve only heard of marketable pain treatments » Oct 29, 24
- STUDY: Can you attack back pain with knowledge bombs? » Oct 23, 24
- Pain relief from doing the most painful thing 🔈 » Oct 19, 24
- STUDY: Hip and core strength can prevent running injuries » Oct 16, 24
- Chiropractic with a hammer » Oct 15, 24
- Blog pause for Covid recovery & post stockpiling » Oct 5, 24
- Plug your sodium channels with VX-548 » Sep 30, 24
- Trigger points debate greatly delayed (Member Post) 🔈 » Sep 27, 24
- Reciprocal inhibition invalidated (15 years ago) » Sep 25, 24
- Is junk food exhausting? » Sep 23, 24
- Blood-starved kneecaps » Sep 18, 24
- The rhythm of throbbing pain » Sep 16, 24
- Exercise for arthritis is underwhelming » Sep 11, 24
- Magnesium supplementation as a pain killer 🔈 » Sep 6, 24
- Six hours work for one citation » Sep 4, 24
- A new placebo analgesia review » Sep 3, 24
- Plentiful potent PEMF prevails (defying my cynical prediction) 🔈 » Aug 27, 24
- Shocking shockwave defeat » Aug 21, 24
- Inflamed planet: do chemicals explain some pain? (Member Post) 🔈 » Aug 19, 24
- The physical activity paradox » Aug 16, 24
- Sleeping on the floor is not like getting an 8-hour massage » Aug 11, 24
- An allergy to … meat?! » Aug 10, 24
- Common lung dysfunction makes people weaker » Aug 7, 24
- Germ theory denialism is the flat Earth of biology 🔈 » Aug 1, 24
- The trouble with demonizing trivial physical stresses 🔈 » Jul 26, 24
- Running does not wreck knees (probably) » Jul 24, 24
- Walking back the WalkBack Trial 🔈 » Jul 18, 24
- A test of lidocaine for neck pain » Jul 9, 24
- Modern Pain Care interview » Jul 9, 24
- Empathy is medicinal » Jul 6, 24
- Bone-on-bone, Part 2: Should we ever say it? (Member Post) 🔈 » Jul 3, 24
- Dancing With Dog Toys + DMSO » Jun 26, 24
- The trouble with the OPAL trial of opioids for back pain 🔈 » Jun 20, 24
- Debunking for a living » Jun 19, 24
- Weird bones are normal 🔈 » Jun 18, 24
- Diagnosis or the patient? What matters more for prognosis » Jun 14, 24
- Can pain be conditioned? The plausibility and the evidence 🔈 » Jun 11, 24
- Pain self-efficacy » Jun 1, 24
- Ruben’s miracle: extreme back pain eliminated by ketamine 🔈 » May 31, 24
- Back pain: not a couch potato problem » May 25, 24
- Is chronic pain a lifestyle problem? » May 24, 24
- A rare remission of a savage headache » May 24, 24
- What’s “cholesterol denialism”? » May 24, 24
- A new molecule to blame for pain: “Xist” » May 22, 24
- Have scientists discovered inflammation’s master switch in the vagus? 🔈 » May 20, 24
- So sorry about my last post (about trusting pain) 🔈 » May 17, 24
- You can trust your pain (mostly) 🔈 » May 14, 24
- How often is “bone on bone” bogus? 🔈 » May 9, 24
- Not sciatica but Parkinson’s » May 4, 24
- Herniation size and symptoms » May 3, 24
- Kneecap replacement: how bad an idea is it? 🔈 » May 2, 24
- Back pain trajectories 🔈 » Apr 26, 24
- Treating PIS and long Covid 🔈 » Apr 19, 24
- Touchy subject » Apr 18, 24
- Nocebic organizations » Apr 18, 24
- Spinal discs at risk, but not from the usual suspects 🔈 » Apr 15, 24
- Podcast at last! » Apr 11, 24
- A noisy “release”? 🔈 » Apr 9, 24
- Built for pressure: How thick is kneecap cartilage? 🔈 » Apr 3, 24
- It’s surprisingly hard to recover from being really chilly » Apr 2, 24
- Three painful science snacks: weekend warriorism, exercise for back pain, and calcific tendinitis 🔈 » Mar 29, 24
- Ice bath safety and hypoxic blackout 🔈 » Mar 25, 24
- Dehydration itself may be less potent than fearing it 🔈 » Mar 21, 24
- We’re sharing a drink called pain » Mar 20, 24
- Can we ever deny someone’s pain? » Mar 18, 24
- Who gets studied? The demographics of pain research 🔈 » Mar 16, 24
- Do most painful conditions resolve spontaneously? (Member Post) 🔈 » Mar 15, 24
- Fibromyalgia drives people to drink 🔈 » Mar 9, 24
- Butt-hurt about hurt butts » Mar 7, 24
- The evidence on Botox for muscle knots blew my mind once upon a time 🔈 » Mar 4, 24
- Pictures of spinal inflammation: a correlation kerfuffle 🔈 » Feb 29, 24
- Any exercise is a lot better than none » Feb 26, 24
- Injuries causing injuries causing injuries? 🔈 » Feb 26, 24
- A potent link between pain and lousy sleep…regardless of your budget 🔈 » Feb 22, 24
- More nocebos + degenerative hair disease 🔈 » Feb 21, 24
- A sunset that causes headaches? » Feb 17, 24
- What is a “release” in manual therapy? (Member Post) 🔈 » Feb 12, 24
- Gluteal massage gone wrong » Feb 10, 24
- Study: Softer, quicker running improves patellofemoral pain 🔈 » Feb 5, 24
- Naprapathy: a vintage modality mash-up » Feb 2, 24
- Physical therapy is still dominated by one big, wrong idea 🔈 » Jan 29, 24
- Can we ignore the source, rather than considering it? » Jan 24, 24
- Scraping massage is badly over-hyped » Jan 22, 24
- Reasonable doubt: the special threat of health anxiety (hypochondria) 🔈 » Jan 19, 24
- Nocebo versus sugar-coating: the pros and cons of colourful descriptions of painful problems 🔈 » Jan 15, 24
- Barefoot walking for plantar fasciitis: better than I thought? (Member Post) 🔈 » Jan 11, 24
- Science round-up: six painful science stories from 2023 » Jan 9, 24
- New year, new server! PainScience.com offline a bit » Jan 3, 24
- More anticonvulsants, more! 🔈 » Dec 30, 23
- A tale of two kinds of knee pain 🔈 » Dec 18, 23
- As heard on NPR…just barely (Member Post) 🔈 » Dec 14, 23
- Pull harder! The “key” to tendinitis? » Dec 11, 23
- The curious example of occipital neuralgia 🔈 » Dec 9, 23
- A different kind of injury mechanism » Dec 8, 23
- Inflamed, but not psychosocially » Dec 1, 23
- Case study of good natural recovery from cauda equina syndrome » Nov 27, 23
- Q&A: Can “compensation” for an old injury cause a new pain? » Nov 25, 23
- No obvious neck abnormalities in headache patients 🔈 » Nov 22, 23
- This heartburn news is giving me heartburn! 🔈 » Nov 18, 23
- Wim Hof Method vs. The Null Hypothesis 🔈 » Nov 11, 23
- Heart stopping information: exactly how we faint » Nov 4, 23
- A point for PEMF? Pending confirmation of effect size » Nov 1, 23
- Do you feel lucky, punk? CBD product efficacy and toxicity » Oct 28, 23
- Pass the bag of pain! Junk food as an inflammation driver 🔈 » Oct 24, 23
- An overdue review of the venerable McKenzie Method (Member Post) 🔈 » Oct 20, 23
- Criticize the science that supports you » Oct 17, 23
- Cell phone horns 😈 + salamander on NPR about tech and bodies 🔈 » Oct 14, 23
- The surreal appeal of pain “hacks” » Oct 13, 23
- Paxlovid rebound is not a thing + Covid hurts 🔈 » Oct 10, 23
- Preventing arthritis and tendinitis is easier than you think (with patience) 🔈 » Oct 6, 23
- Weekend warriorism maybe not so bad 🔈 » Oct 2, 23
- ACT feels nicer than CBT » Sep 30, 23
- Today’s weird therapy I’ve never even heard of: eurythmy! » Sep 30, 23
- Fainting follow-up: vasovagal syncope versus the vagal manoeuvre (plus a vagus-hype glossary) 🔈 » Sep 29, 23
- Stretching to … build muscle? It works, but there’s a catch! 🔈 » Sep 22, 23
- Cannabis hype control » Sep 19, 23
- Follow-up: The details of that strength training protocol that didn’t work for knee pain 🔈 » Sep 14, 23
- More study not always needed » Sep 12, 23
- Can neck massage stimulate the vagus nerve? For better or worse? (Member Post) 🔈 » Sep 7, 23
- Joint lube still useless 🔈 » Sep 5, 23
- What do I REALLY think happened with that massage success story? 🔈 » Sep 1, 23
- Should you exercise when you’re still sore from the last workout? 🔈 » Aug 30, 23
- Bullet stuck in a hand for decades before being noticed » Aug 23, 23
- Strengthening for painful knees performs poorly in a new trial 🔈 » Aug 22, 23
- Infection aches versus normal chronic pain » Aug 17, 23
- If we’re genetically programmed to hurt, why bother trying to control anything? 🔈 » Aug 12, 23
- Extra, extra! Extra floating ribs are way more common than anyone knew (Member Post) 🔈 » Aug 9, 23
- Are we intuitive about our health? Hell no! On animals and the limits of self-care 🔈 » Aug 4, 23
- Sign me up for mild muscle pain? The statins dilemma 🔈 » Aug 1, 23
- Slow exhalations: are they a meditative breathing upgrade? 🔈 » Jul 20, 23
- Muscles and brains get healthier together 🔈 » Jul 18, 23
- New “positive” studies rarely change the bottom line (e.g. massage for exercise soreness) 🔈 » Jul 13, 23
- Does debunking back pain myths work? » Jul 9, 23
- Kooky misogynistic beliefs about gait and fibromyalgia 🔈 » Jul 7, 23
- Pulsating heads and expert skull feeling (Member Post) 🔈 » Jul 1, 23
- Some honesty about honest placebos 🔈 » Jun 28, 23
- The fountain of youth is probably not your kitchen faucet » Jun 24, 23
- Cheaper membership options! These are tiers of joy » Jun 24, 23
- Icing is still useful: a rebuttal to cryotherapy skepticism 🔈 » Jun 21, 23
- Does anxiety cause back pain? 🔈 » Jun 19, 23
- Exercising neurodynamically 🔈 » Jun 16, 23
- A neglected citation about patient dissatisfaction with Pain Explaining » Jun 12, 23
- The dark side of Explaining Pain? Gaslighting pain patients with PNE 🔈 » Jun 9, 23
- Triggers, causes, and our deep need to explain pain: some follow-up » Jun 7, 23
- Spinal curvature chaos » Jun 5, 23
- Massage therapy: occasionally slightly helpful » Jun 3, 23
- I prefer extension: Back pain self-help exercise based on “directional preference,” but only “centralizers” need apply (Member Post) 🔈 » May 31, 23
- Pain demands an explanation » May 27, 23
- Chiropractor harassed for being pro-vaccine » May 26, 23
- What do people think triggered their back pain? 🔈 » May 19, 23
- Sanctioned post-surgical torture » May 14, 23
- Some muscle strains turn out to be stress fractures » May 12, 23
- Major good news study for back pain (which validates my career) 🔈 » May 4, 23
- How I got a study about pain and anxiety all wrong (and got set straight) » Apr 28, 23
- Huberman Schmuberman: A rising tide of criticism of the bright new star of wellness podcasting (Member Post) 🔈 » Apr 26, 23
- Why is it always ME-slash-CFS? And where’s FM?! Myalgic encephalomyelitis vs chronic fatigue syndrome vs fibromyalgia 🔈 » Apr 22, 23
- That’s no knee injury » Apr 22, 23
- Micromuscle errata » Apr 19, 23
- So you’re saying meditation is over-hyped… » Apr 19, 23
- Promises, promises: the perpetually “promising” state of ozone therapy » Apr 18, 23
- 3 neat disc and herniation studies 🔈 » Apr 13, 23
- Placebo enthusiasm cannot be curbed 🔈 » Apr 7, 23
- What’s worse than not having a pain cure? » Apr 4, 23
- Why so much imaging? » Mar 30, 23
- IASTM: A fancy acronym to describe rubbing an object on people’s skin » Mar 23, 23
- Nitpicks galore! Four gripes about the exercise-versus-saline study (and four responses) 🔈 » Mar 22, 23
- Anti-inflammatory hyperventilation: I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow my pain away » Mar 17, 23
- Can the mind create pain? (Member Post) 🔈 » Mar 10, 23
- Not a good day for exercise-as-medicine » Mar 4, 23
- Elderly fitness and luck » Feb 24, 23
- Zapping period pain: TENS for primary dysmenorrhea » Feb 23, 23
- How our understanding of osteoarthritis is evolving » Feb 16, 23
- Kooky new pain treatment: smart ice implants » Feb 11, 23
- Green light therapy for humans and colour-blind rats (Member Post) 🔈 » Feb 8, 23
- Stretching Boosts Muscle Strength and Size! » Feb 3, 23
- Therapeutic Botox: Should we paralyze misbehaving muscle? 🔈 » Jan 31, 23
- Is pandiculation really about stretch? And other sexy updates 🔈 » Jan 28, 23
- Does BPS-ified pain treatment work? » Jan 19, 23
- Train like Gandalf » Jan 19, 23
- Is pandiculation powerful? » Jan 13, 23
- In memoriam: Dr. Harriet Hall always asked “who disagrees and why” » Jan 12, 23
- Diagnostic humility » Jan 6, 23
- Do you get any joint pain relief from your workouts? » Jan 4, 23
- Three happy exercise studies for pain patients » Dec 23, 22
- The legend of Boot Nail Guy reconsidered » Dec 20, 22
- BPS-ing badly! How the biopsychosocial model fails pain patients (Member Post) 🔈 » Dec 15, 22
- My back pain book is a sign-up bonus for Physio Network » Dec 12, 22
- Mindfulness backfire » Dec 10, 22
- Epsom salts, osmosis, and sucking » Dec 6, 22
- Yoga for back pain » Dec 2, 22
- Do you need to nose breathe more? 🔈 » Nov 30, 22
- Tendons are swell » Nov 16, 22
- 5 reasons running on pavement probably isn’t injurious » Nov 15, 22
- The scary scrubber teaches me about the motivational power of pain (Member Post) 🔈 » Nov 8, 22
- How PainSci readers saved my dad from dangerous hiccups » Nov 3, 22
- The humiliating micro injuries of aging (but not just aging) » Oct 25, 22
- Website upgrade: Dismiss 7649 footnotes more easily » Oct 19, 22
- Pain and prejudice » Oct 17, 22
- Hungry, hungry humans balance the energy budget by … cutting inflammation?! 🔈 » Oct 13, 22
- Bad stretching take from a good doctor » Oct 7, 22
- Pulling on nerves for fun and therapy 🔈 » Sep 26, 22
- Icing is not dead » Sep 21, 22
- Cognitive behavioural therapy for low back pain (Member Post) 🔈 » Sep 15, 22
- Charles, the Alternative King? » Sep 13, 22
- Cancer risks from gadget radiation are super low to nil 🔈 » Sep 12, 22
- Psychosomatic pain in the ER » Sep 9, 22
- Hypnotizing your gut » Sep 7, 22
- Blogging holiday is over: now what? » Sep 6, 22
- Better login UX » Aug 16, 22
- The PainSci newsletter is one year old (and I’m taking a break) » Aug 2, 22
- The hiccup hack: suckin’ and swallowin’ » Aug 1, 22
- Vagus nerve hype and hope (Member Post) 🔈 » Jul 27, 22
- Please! Stop saying trigger points “don’t exist” » Jul 23, 22
- Not everyone has heard of eeee-mail yet » Jul 22, 22
- Pick a joint, any joint! » Jul 21, 22
- Where there is stimulation, there is counterstimulation » Jul 20, 22
- Medical uncertainty » Jul 19, 22
- Dodging COVID at a wedding 🔈 » Jul 18, 22
- Stork test of doom » Jul 11, 22
- What works for pain (with many asterisks) » Jul 6, 22
- Probiotics for pain: eating “good bacteria” to reduce systemic inflammation (Member Post) 🔈 » Jul 1, 22
- Long COVID hurts » Jun 28, 22
- “Promising”: You keep using that word… » Jun 24, 22
- Mechanism masturbation: wishful thinking about why treatments work » Jun 23, 22
- The origin of the Legend of Placebo » Jun 22, 22
- How’s it hangin’? The pendulum exercise dangles the arm to ease shoulder pain » Jun 11, 22
- That Pain Reprocessing Therapy study is way too good to be true 🔈 » Jun 9, 22
- Ideal telehealth versus the sketchy reality » Jun 6, 22
- Human anatomy is not as advanced as we think » Jun 4, 22
- Itty bitty workouts prevent some workplace injuries 🔈 » Jun 1, 22
- Is running downhill healthier than running up? » May 27, 22
- Placebo paradoxes pacified (Member Post) 🔈 » May 25, 22
- We do not have the muscle balance science » May 24, 22
- Dozens of studies can still be wrong » May 23, 22
- Relaxation for abyssal horrors » May 23, 22
- Free frozen shoulder book » May 23, 22
- Every little bit counts! Unless it’s not ACTUALLY a little bit… 🔈 » May 19, 22
- Adenosine monophosphate deaminase 1 (AMPD1) deficiency » May 14, 22
- Why don’t all injuries hurt? Five theories 🔈 » May 13, 22
- Lift faster, function better » May 11, 22
- Imaging pros & cons: interview » May 10, 22
- The unflattering evidence on CBT for pain » May 2, 22
- Body of Evidence interview about leaving massage therapy behind » Apr 27, 22
- Improve knee pain slightly (without changing biomechanics) » Apr 22, 22
- Hype control for neuroinflammation » Apr 22, 22
- Can you forget pain? » Apr 20, 22
- What would Carl Sagan do? » Apr 19, 22
- 183 inconclusive compression gear studies » Apr 17, 22
- Placebo power hype Pro Max++ Edition » Apr 12, 22
- Tendon rupture not as obvious as you’d think » Apr 11, 22
- 6 reasons people believe the mind has power over pain » Apr 7, 22
- How much pain is caused by infection fallout? » Apr 6, 22
- Muscle cell nuclei move?! » Apr 2, 22
- Jedi pain tricks, listed and classified: the taxonomy of mind-over-pain treatment (Member Post) 🔈 » Apr 1, 22
- No one actually believes those myths? Oh, yes they do! » Mar 31, 22
- Adding assault to injury » Mar 28, 22
- Stretching is not a pillar of fitness » Mar 28, 22
- Whacking joints “in” and sensation-enhanced placebo 🔈 » Mar 26, 22
- Surgery for trigger points?! Cutting out the “scare” tissue 🔈 » Mar 23, 22
- Treatments are not safe because they “only” affect the vulnerable » Mar 21, 22
- PainSci update round-up: pulling on nerves and nostrils, ice cream headaches, and much more » Mar 18, 22
- Patient experts » Mar 16, 22
- Disastrously dismissing women’s symptoms » Mar 14, 22
- Sensation vs perception vs who cares » Mar 11, 22
- The matter/energy equivalence deepity » Mar 10, 22
- Back pain doesn’t follow the signs » Mar 8, 22
- The misuse of a classic back diagram » Mar 7, 22
- Microscopes versus telescopes » Mar 4, 22
- Yet another simple problem with a complex cause » Feb 28, 22
- Must not be good enough at my job » Feb 26, 22
- The hidden causes of injuries versus misleading “risk factors” (Member Post) » Feb 24, 22
- Trying to answer the question “what works for pain?” » Feb 17, 22
- Inject steroids, lose a hip » Feb 15, 22
- Adulterated evidence of supplement adulteration » Feb 12, 22
- Counterstimulation as an obscure seed of truth powering quackery » Feb 10, 22
- Treating anxiety physiologically » Feb 9, 22
- If it’s not obviously weak, it’s probably not a problem » Feb 8, 22
- Can you prevent strains by upgrading your “muscle balance”? (Member Post) » Feb 4, 22
- Do spasms hurt? » Feb 1, 22
- Professional arrogance exposed » Jan 31, 22
- Dead or pretending? » Jan 31, 22
- Ergonomics is commercialized posturology » Jan 29, 22
- Buford complex at 2 o’clock » Jan 28, 22
- Not just out of shape » Jan 28, 22
- A GIGO review of homeopathic Arnica » Jan 27, 22
- I woke up with it » Jan 26, 22
- Nostril yanking therapy » Jan 26, 22
- Correction: anticonvulsants can be helpful for some neuropathy (just not back pain) » Jan 25, 22
- Is acupuncture FDA approved? » Jan 21, 22
- “Big Suppla” is now evidence-based debunking » Jan 11, 22
- From one neat photo to a whole article about ozone therapy » Jan 8, 22
- What’s new on PainScience.com since September-ish? Lots! » Jan 6, 22
- PainSci membership program launch » Dec 18, 21
- STUDY: Treatment for pain versus disability » Dec 15, 21
- The Proteins of Pain: Part 3, Spice Therapy (Member Post) » Dec 13, 21
- Is blue light evil? Night lighting, gadget screens, and tenth-assed science » Dec 9, 21
- Topical diclofenac is now about as evidence-based as it can get » Dec 4, 21
- The Proteins of Pain: Part 2, Threatening Spice (Member Post) » Nov 30, 21
- Education versus experience » Nov 24, 21
- Demonization regrets » Nov 23, 21
- An updated red flag for a rare type of back pain » Nov 20, 21
- Is back pain a disease of civilization? A modern lifestyle disease? » Nov 16, 21
- The Overdiagnosis of Pain as a “False Alarm” (Member Post) » Nov 12, 21
- Neck needling? Study says: nope! » Nov 5, 21
- Can you define “nociception”? » Nov 5, 21
- Join a chronic pain treatment study » Nov 5, 21
- Facial numbness is a Very Serious Symptom » Nov 4, 21
- Robotic Mouse Massage: Is It “Regenerative” and “Anti-Inflammatory”? (Member Post) » Oct 27, 21
- Lactic acid does not cause soreness or fatigue » Oct 25, 21
- Big health benefits from far fewer than 10k steps per day » Oct 22, 21
- The Proteins That Help Us Feel the World: Part 1 » Oct 19, 21
- Painfully tongue-tied » Oct 13, 21
- History? What History? An Imaging Foul (Member Post) 🔈 » Oct 9, 21
- A more diplomatic massage interview » Oct 7, 21
- Good posture causes (some) neck pain [STUDY] » Oct 6, 21
- Body repair motions » Oct 1, 21
- “Muscle Strain” Rehab in the Twilight Zone (Member Post) » Sep 29, 21
- Acetaminophen possibly unsafe in pregnancy » Sep 27, 21
- Tinnitus, pain, and the Zen of Suffering » Sep 24, 21
- Can the Mind Freeze Shoulders? Five Studies (Member Post) » Sep 21, 21
- Can we think the pain away? » Sep 18, 21
- Vaginismus Awareness Day » Sep 15, 21
- PainSci Update Roundup (Sep 14, 2021) » Sep 14, 21
- Demon tries to inhabit my body » Sep 10, 21
- When is it safe and helpful to resume what you love? » Sep 10, 21
- STUDY: Exercise, Steroids, and Shoulder Pain That Might Be Tendinitis (Member Post) » Sep 8, 21
- Is fibromyalgia a “wastebasket” diagnosis? » Sep 3, 21
- Medicine is not the “third leading cause of death” in the US » Sep 1, 21
- Resilience as Victim-Blaming Bullshit » Aug 28, 21
- Can we stop now? Nope! » Aug 27, 21
- MRI use versus abuse » Aug 27, 21
- Back pain isn’t about being “unstable” » Aug 27, 21
- Many surgeries aren’t evidence-based [STUDY] » Aug 26, 21
- Bizarre Case of Mouth Pain, With an Explanation and a Solution (Member Post) » Aug 24, 21
- “Plantaris hypertonia” as a cause of runner’s knee: a good example of a bad idea » Aug 20, 21
- Futuristic brain implant kills rat pain [STUDY] » Aug 17, 21
- Mysterious butt pain and making syndromes from symptoms » Aug 12, 21
- Victory over vicious eyelid twitching » Aug 10, 21
- Spock’s neck and shoulder massage » Aug 10, 21
- Euphoric tingle therapy: optimizing therapy for autonomous sensory meridian response » Aug 6, 21
- PainSci Update Roundup (Aug 2, 2021) » Aug 2, 21
- Let’s stop saying eccentric exercise is the “gold standard” for Achilles tendinitis » Aug 2, 21
- STUDY: Miserable mice! Fibromyalgia transplanted to mice…in blood? » Jul 31, 21
- If brains could talk: remembering how pain happens » Jul 28, 21
- The Demonization of Manual Therapy » Jul 26, 21
- Amusing back pain patients with “evidence-based” garbage » Jul 23, 21
- STUDY: Real laser therapy no better than a red LED for back pain 🔈 » Jul 21, 21
- Fascia and COVID embarrassingly blended » Jul 19, 21
- Humbling kidney stones » Jul 17, 21
- The trouble with “it worked for me” and “athletes use it” » Jul 15, 21
- A good example of claudication » Jul 6, 21
- Clinically subtle fracture from overload » Jul 5, 21
- How can an “expert” fail to solve chronic pain? » Jul 5, 21
- PainSci Update Roundup (July 5, 2021) » Jul 5, 21
- STUDY: Does a “dysfunctional” tensor fascia latae cause injuries? » Jun 26, 21
- What works versus what fits » Jun 25, 21
- Stegenga on Medical Nihilism » Jun 25, 21
- Brush your teeth to take better care of your… joints? » Jun 16, 21
- Quackery’s scientific double standard » Jun 13, 21
- A laser limerick: “Lasers in physical therapy are silly” » Jun 11, 21
- “All in your head” isn’t in my vocabulary » Jun 11, 21
- Fear and pessimism predict poor knee surgery outcomes » Jun 11, 21
- Three recent blog highlights + some newsletter notes » Jun 11, 21
- A not-so-surprising lack of evidence » Jun 8, 21
- The disaster of scientific publishing » Jun 8, 21
- Now I will hurt and not work right » Jun 6, 21
- Treating menstrual cramps with pain-killers » Jun 5, 21
- People know surprisingly little about common pain-killers » Jun 4, 21
- A running joke » Jun 1, 21
- Good book deal » Jun 1, 21
- Supplements article rebooted » May 31, 21
- Smells fishy to me » May 30, 21
- “How are you?” » May 30, 21
- Knee replacements are not evidence-based » May 30, 21
- Pain drama » May 30, 21
- Long something! » May 25, 21
- The dark side of quantifying our health » May 25, 21
- “Promising” research never is » May 25, 21
- Taping fails another test » May 24, 21
- “I had no idea” » May 24, 21
- Let dogs be dogs: those canine COVID sniffing stories » May 24, 21
- That nice, weird tingly head feeling » May 24, 21
- Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome: a remote hypothetical threat, or all-too-real and personal? » May 15, 21
- 6 tales of blood clots dangerously dislodged by massage » May 10, 21
- 20 years of writing about stretching » May 5, 21
- COVID wrecks people » May 4, 21
- An inflammatory interview » Apr 29, 21
- Motor skills training for back pain is mediocre at best » Apr 21, 21
- The great-power gambit » Apr 14, 21
- Chronic pain has a purpose: hypervigilance against predation (at least) » Apr 14, 21
- New cash register » Apr 10, 21
- The remove-or-improve project: 2 major article upgrades so far » Mar 27, 21
- New PainSci article about vaginismus » Mar 8, 21
- Defensive medicine and MRI for back pain » Mar 6, 21
- The taping of Methai the elephant » Mar 6, 21
- The speed of lies and truth, mistakes and retractions » Feb 26, 21
- Can COVID be a pain-killer? » Feb 22, 21
- Massage for the win: a happy (but weird) personal anecdote » Feb 8, 21
- More chiro COVID quackery » Feb 5, 21
- Speed protein » Feb 4, 21
- An indirect yoga hazard: you might join a cult » Feb 3, 21
- Optimism by denial » Feb 2, 21
- Nerves are not wires » Feb 1, 21
- “Revolutionary” insomnia advice » Jan 29, 21
- Bad-sanitizer story worsens » Jan 28, 21
- Antidepressants not great for back pain, arthritis » Jan 22, 21
- Still more steroid risks » Jan 22, 21
- I woke up with it » Jan 22, 21
- Back pain is rarely as dangerous as it feels, except when it is » Jan 19, 21
- Weak collagen science » Jan 19, 21
- A dumbed-down explanation of ibuprofen » Jan 12, 21
- Allergic reactions to vaccination are struck-by-lightning rare » Jan 12, 21
- Knee noise and arthritis » Jan 12, 21
- Bath salts from Jupiter » Jan 12, 21
- Fibromyalgia is one of the hardest problems in all of medicine » Jan 5, 21
- If you don’t break the table… » Jan 5, 21
- Plastic pipes heated by fires are polluting drinking water » Jan 5, 21
- Hey Siri, scan me! » Dec 23, 20
- Pain as a symptom of complex trauma » Dec 17, 20
- NICE finally moves to stop recommending exercise for chronic “fatigue” » Dec 17, 20
- Seizures and giddiness, together at last » Dec 17, 20
- Science versus anecdotes » Dec 17, 20
- Bookmarking glitch fixed » Dec 12, 20
- Better late than never » Nov 24, 20
- Spinal flexion demonization » Nov 24, 20
- An ego so big it could get me killed » Nov 24, 20
- Tumour all in your head » Nov 24, 20
- Strength training fails a test maybe » Nov 11, 20
- Sports massage is not hot sauce » Nov 11, 20
- On the importance of taking criticism well » Nov 7, 20
- Secondary gain is bollocks » Nov 6, 20
- Pets don’t want snake oil » Oct 23, 20
- Teh warr on typohs » Oct 17, 20
- Hydrocephalus and craniosacral therapy » Oct 17, 20
- Two kinds of pain: sexual and non-sexual? » Oct 13, 20
- The “dull and rusty” science of pain » Oct 5, 20
- “Social” versus “physical” distance » Oct 5, 20
- Google strikes again! » Sep 30, 20
- The significance of painful “niggles” during exercise » Sep 24, 20
- Article reborn: Pain professionals reviewed » Sep 10, 20
- Lack of “originality” is a feature here, not a bug » Sep 10, 20
- Your shoulder may hurt because you’re unfit » Sep 9, 20
- Hacking the signs » Sep 4, 20
- Not actually Eastern/ancient » Sep 4, 20
- Pushing and shoving blood, and cerebrospinal fluid circulation » Aug 20, 20
- Women’s health and chronic pain » Aug 20, 20
- Hard palates, rolled shoulders, and exotic structuralism » Aug 20, 20
- 119 causes of thunderclap headache » Aug 15, 20
- Chronic pain mainly on or near joints » Aug 3, 20
- How tongues stick out » Aug 3, 20
- Few humans ever get to experience anything like this » Jul 23, 20
- Fast, cheap COVID testing » Jul 23, 20
- More evidence muscle “remembers” » Jul 17, 20
- Two reasons further research is perpetually needed » Jul 14, 20
- Examine Personalized: Monthly nutrition research summaries » Jul 8, 20
- Schnell, schnell! Speed boosts for PainScience.com » Jul 3, 20
- A pill that trashes tendons » Jun 23, 20
- Skepticism about skeptics from a skeptic » Jun 18, 20
- Study finds jack shit (which is to be expected) » May 6, 20
- Stretching chat with podiatrists » May 1, 20
- “Massage parlour” ecommerce hijinks » May 1, 20
- Maximally ungracious: straining to violate principle of charity » Apr 26, 20
- Content quality on the internet » Apr 10, 20
- Resist infection with moderate exercise (but know when to quit) » Apr 7, 20
- Stim treatments: if they can’t hurt, they probably can’t help either » Apr 2, 20
- Magical healing at the movies » Mar 29, 20
- Honour is not dead » Mar 24, 20
- Antiviral Kinesio Tape (and hot yoga) » Mar 20, 20
- Running a website is expensive » Mar 20, 20
- This post is not about COVID-19 » Mar 19, 20
- How is PainScience.com like Chernobyl? » Mar 11, 20
- Is exercise good for anxiety? We still don’t quite know » Mar 11, 20
- “Consider the information” and qualifications versus credentials » Mar 6, 20
- Fascinating! The words “fascia” and “fascism” both come from the same symbol » Feb 29, 20
- The Body of Evidence Interview: Massage myths » Feb 28, 20
- Are clinicians becoming paralyzed by Pain Science? » Feb 20, 20
- Yet another sneaky pathological pain culprit » Feb 16, 20
- Reassurance for massage therapists » Feb 15, 20
- Is intermittent fasting anti-inflammatory? » Feb 11, 20
- Does sitting cause back pain? Following the evidence back to a previously abandoned position » Feb 4, 20
- Are the chemical ingredients of a human really worth only a couple bucks? » Jan 28, 20
- Getting stronger is corrective » Jan 22, 20
- The year of “finally”! PainScience.com highlights from 2019 » Jan 19, 20
- One kind of muscle memory » Jan 15, 20
- Where’s the criticism? » Jan 11, 20
- I love to tell you I told you so: the U-Dream debacle in my household » Jan 6, 20
- You’re not paranoid if they’re really after you » Dec 24, 19
- Back pain: coping versus treating » Dec 18, 19
- New headache book makes it an even ten » Dec 9, 19
- The power of the NYT, the meaning of “pain is an opinion,” and much ado about nothing » Dec 9, 19
- Quoted in the NYT on the topic of “pain and the mind” » Dec 2, 19
- Muscle relaxants are odd » Nov 26, 19
- Why do joints feel stiff after getting up? » Nov 26, 19
- A nose for pot » Nov 16, 19
- The facile humility of “facilitating” healing » Nov 16, 19
- What if chronic pain is a feature, not a bug? » Nov 12, 19
- The myth of the extremely effective therapist » Nov 9, 19
- Neurosis supplier » Nov 9, 19
- The Strength Athlete interview » Nov 6, 19
- True muscle memory » Nov 6, 19
- Run only a little, live more » Nov 6, 19
- Fish as medicine » Oct 31, 19
- It’s good for touch » Oct 31, 19
- Delayed honesty » Oct 31, 19
- “Try yoga” » Oct 25, 19
- Antibiotics for back pain: still no » Oct 25, 19
- Massage may be lovely, but it’s not “medicine” » Oct 25, 19
- Lessons from the 2019 Nobel prize for medicine » Oct 14, 19
- Lifting awkwardly as a risk factor for back pain » Oct 8, 19
- Red wine: not just a migraine trigger » Oct 8, 19
- Are “extremist” patients attacking chronic fatigue syndrome science? » Oct 2, 19
- What (work) I did on summer vacation » Oct 2, 19
- A new book about frozen shoulder » Aug 10, 19
- Summer 2019 blog pause » Jul 14, 19
- A genetic defect that exaggerates all sensations (including pain) » Jul 8, 19
- Hundreds of old bibliography links fixed » Jun 26, 19
- Two pet theories about inflammation » Jun 22, 19
- Benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome » Jun 19, 19
- What the hell is a “tension” headache? » Jun 18, 19
- Just the right amount of hyperbole » Jun 11, 19
- Strengthening-while-lengthening is a “proven” rehab method for muscle strain » Jun 5, 19
- Reality versus best practices in musculoskeletal medicine » Jun 4, 19
- Injection infection? Another surprising way to freeze a shoulder » May 27, 19
- That word “placebo” » May 24, 19
- Apostasy fallout » May 24, 19
- The metabolic roots of pain » May 20, 19
- A kooky “scientific” study of massage » May 20, 19
- Another new “finally” article » May 16, 19
- New article about massage and circulation » May 9, 19
- Tech and health care » Apr 25, 19
- And another speed boost for PainScience.com » Apr 25, 19
- Classic examples of failed “common sense” in medicine » Apr 25, 19
- I take requests » Apr 23, 19
- “Primary” versus “functional” pain » Apr 18, 19
- Faster, better, stronger: redesigning for mobile » Apr 15, 19
- From scratching an itch to picking a scab » Apr 1, 19
- Tough love for amplified pain » Mar 29, 19
- Don’t “push” for a diagnosis » Mar 26, 19
- Another off-key attack on “pain science” » Mar 23, 19
- What do pimples have in common with frozen shoulders? » Mar 20, 19
- How do you slow down the progression of arthritis? » Mar 19, 19
- Be careful what you wish for! The overzealously holistic physician » Mar 15, 19
- Stark statistical errors in much massage research » Mar 10, 19
- Tetanus rides again » Mar 9, 19
- A devastating critique of modern medicine » Mar 9, 19
- The Holy Shit Moment » Mar 5, 19
- Plantar fasciitis excerpt: Baxter’s neuritis » Mar 4, 19
- Painful word of the day: palliative » Mar 2, 19
- I’ve tried “everything” » Feb 28, 19
- Massage research as marketing » Feb 26, 19
- Why is neck pain so common? Spatial summation of cryptic insults » Feb 26, 19
- Run to the Top » Feb 23, 19
- Narcolepsy isn’t just about attacks of sleepiness » Feb 23, 19
- High expectations » Feb 23, 19
- Bulk books for sale! » Feb 23, 19
- New article about knee replacement » Feb 20, 19
- Critical evaluation of a critical evaluation » Feb 19, 19
- Formality and credibility » Feb 18, 19
- Good to Go » Feb 14, 19
- Why I quit my massage therapy career » Feb 1, 19
- Why exercise is good for stress » Jan 27, 19
- A new donation paradigm for PainScience.com » Jan 26, 19
- Neurological growing pains: the nature of exercise soreness » Jan 23, 19
- More than a decade of debunking Epsom salts » Jan 21, 19
- Molecular biology is “fast and crowded” » Jan 18, 19
- Too big to fail: the power of big webpages » Jan 15, 19
- Anti-inflammatories and tendons » Jan 15, 19
- Sick of lame citing » Jan 12, 19
- More mail than Stephen King? » Jan 12, 19
- Would you like shards of glass with that? » Jan 9, 19
- What happened editorially on PainScience.com in 2018 » Jan 2, 19
- Business highlights and lowlights of PainScience.com in 2018 » Jan 2, 19
- The most dangerous company in the world » Jan 1, 19
- Statistics explained with poetry » Dec 17, 18
- Not a doctor » Dec 14, 18
- Strong evidence for PRP for osteoarthritis? Er, no… » Dec 14, 18
- Life is a reification fallacy » Dec 13, 18
- Shrunk not stuck: the naming of frozen shoulder » Dec 12, 18
- Fantastic feedback » Dec 12, 18
- Typos on a huge scale » Dec 10, 18
- The impact of “minor” but constant pain » Dec 10, 18
- Biological vulnerabilities: the underestimated x-factors in chronic pain » Nov 27, 18
- Cherry-picking, nit-picking, and bad science dressed as good science » Nov 15, 18
- Is stress inflammatory? » Nov 8, 18
- Stretching as a sign of maturity? » Oct 29, 18
- Don’t count inflammation out of tendinopathy quite yet » Oct 26, 18
- Three assumptions about “spasm” » Oct 24, 18
- In it for the long haul » Oct 23, 18
- Good riddance to some bad science…and RIP Robert Courtney » Oct 23, 18
- Study finds jack shit » Oct 19, 18
- Placebo brain study has major issues » Oct 15, 18
- New article! Deep cervical flexor training » Oct 11, 18
- Epsom salts baths for hangovers » Oct 10, 18
- A neurological healing process (for back pain) » Oct 9, 18
- Prolotherapy snark » Oct 9, 18
- What toxins actually are » Oct 4, 18
- Inspiring lifter of heavy things » Oct 2, 18
- Topical anti-inflammatories are effective, safe » Oct 2, 18
- Smoking linked to shoulder injuries » Oct 1, 18
- A skeptic cautiously tries some bizarre-sounding health advice » Oct 1, 18
- Doctors are not scientists » Sep 24, 18
- England’s surgery purge » Sep 19, 18
- A low back problem or a pain problem? » Sep 19, 18
- Massage for back pain: an interesting scientific flip-flop » Sep 19, 18
- Mostly goodbye, Twitter! » Sep 18, 18
- Misdiagnosed for 35 years » Sep 13, 18
- Neuropsychological humility » Sep 10, 18
- Pain with surprising causes, or literally no specific cause at all » Sep 10, 18
- “Why would he mislead people like that?” » Sep 4, 18
- Science cranks » Sep 4, 18
- Mechanisms of inaction » Aug 30, 18
- Key concepts about placebo I wish every reader understood » Aug 27, 18
- The double-edge sword of patient empowerment » Aug 25, 18
- A radical shift away from the biomedical bubble » Aug 17, 18
- Taking out the trash: purging predatory journals from my bibliography » Aug 15, 18
- Zero-G and spines » Aug 13, 18
- Big neck pain book edit » Aug 10, 18
- One final lumpy update » Aug 10, 18
- Your money, your life: how Google ranks webpages that matter » Aug 8, 18
- First drug for chronic migraine prevention » Aug 8, 18
- “The heel strikes back” » Aug 3, 18
- Trippy knee illusions relieve arthritis pain » Jul 31, 18
- Snake oil is not just an old-timey thing » Jul 31, 18
- A kinder, gentler Unstretchables » Jul 30, 18
- Poor posture versus postural stress » Jul 26, 18
- Manual therapy gets them coming back for more » Jul 20, 18
- Massage probably won’t make you faster » Jul 18, 18
- No pressure! Compartment syndrome may not be what it seems » Jul 17, 18
- Stepping on Lego » Jul 15, 18
- But have you tried ____? » Jul 10, 18
- Exercise increases disc height » Jul 10, 18
- The double-edge sword of bracing and support during rehab » Jul 10, 18
- Scientific paper authors are allowed and “delighted” to send full-text » Jul 7, 18
- Ultrasound citation backfire » Jun 29, 18
- Better than what? » Jun 29, 18
- Do not touch » Jun 28, 18
- Why do people crack their own neck joints? » Jun 27, 18
- Reinvigorating mystery » Jun 25, 18
- Competition-based medicine » Jun 22, 18
- Scalenes: the psoas of the neck? » Jun 20, 18
- Take it slow with tendons » Jun 20, 18
- Regrowing worn out parts » Jun 18, 18
- The predatory journal crisis » Jun 18, 18
- Pain management versus coping » Jun 15, 18
- I don’t care who “swears by” what » Jun 15, 18
- The last trace of SaveYourself.ca? » Jun 15, 18
- An excellent activity reminder method » Jun 11, 18
- The epidemic of bogus health claims online » Jun 11, 18
- Raising awareness of risks is not fearmongering » Jun 6, 18
- Hazard versus risk in neck manipulation » Jun 4, 18
- “Right-to-try” is the opposite of science-based medicine » May 29, 18
- Too many tests, and quality versus quantity of life » May 25, 18
- Feeling your uterus in your leg » May 25, 18
- Pushing back against that massage-for-exercise-soreness paper » May 24, 18
- Immortality not included » May 24, 18
- Many nuggets of wisdom about back pain » May 21, 18
- Can strength training prevent overuse injuries? » May 21, 18
- Prescribing opioids is a huge bummer » May 21, 18
- Extreme chilli blows man’s head off » May 17, 18
- New store » May 17, 18
- Strength training “essential for patients with diabetes” » May 14, 18
- Not even wrong claims, and why pain “cures” are impossible in principle » May 11, 18
- Stop the scaremongering about sitting » May 10, 18
- Laser therapy “biology” » May 9, 18
- Pain cups and energy spoons » May 4, 18
- Motion MRI of singing » May 4, 18
- Raise a little heel » May 4, 18
- Scaring and irritating pain patients is bad » May 1, 18
- Text neck over the long term » Apr 30, 18
- Is pain educational? » Apr 30, 18
- Awkward conversation » Apr 30, 18
- On the bleeding edge » Apr 24, 18
- No, stress is not your friend » Apr 24, 18
- Changing health beliefs is like … » Apr 20, 18
- Why so many things help chronic pain a little bit » Apr 20, 18
- Should I have surgery? » Apr 20, 18
- “Adrenal fatigue” is not a thing » Apr 18, 18
- About that damn paywall » Apr 18, 18
- Dr. Travell “dry needled” with a harpoon » Apr 18, 18
- Feed URL correction, arg » Apr 15, 18
- Out with the old (RSS feed) » Apr 14, 18
- Swapping back pain scapegoats » Apr 11, 18
- Newly discovered organ not actually an organ, or even a discovery » Apr 10, 18
- Death & Rebirth as a Massage Therapist » Apr 3, 18
- Medically accurate muscle chart » Apr 3, 18
- Good marks for speed » Apr 3, 18
- Two quick science thoughts » Mar 29, 18
- Pain demands an explanation (even if it’s kooky) » Mar 28, 18
- Hip surgery loses a bet » Mar 28, 18
- Why people seek out alternative medicine » Mar 28, 18
- Good news, gentleman! » Mar 26, 18
- Quantum bullshit » Mar 26, 18
- Futile acupuncture debate » Mar 23, 18
- Never trust anyone who thinks they can fix you » Mar 22, 18
- Touchless massage » Mar 20, 18
- Fancy garbage » Mar 20, 18
- Biology: not amazing at everything » Mar 20, 18
- Expecting pain » Mar 19, 18
- The sound inside your knees » Mar 19, 18
- Not so “powerful” pain killers » Mar 19, 18
- Wasting time and money » Mar 16, 18
- Negativity by the numbers » Mar 16, 18
- Not everyone likes massage » Mar 16, 18
- Spinal “disease” in elite athletes » Mar 14, 18
- Regressing to Hell » Mar 12, 18
- Grace during suffering » Mar 12, 18
- More cupping study not actually needed » Mar 10, 18
- Classy facepalm » Mar 10, 18
- The myth of the back pain whisperer » Mar 10, 18
- Coolest tendon study that has ever been or ever will be » Mar 9, 18
- So was it a super virus or not? » Mar 9, 18
- Crisis within a crisis » Mar 9, 18
- Where’s the rest of the pepperoni? » Mar 8, 18
- Three common dubious ideas about spasm » Mar 8, 18
- Flat back = pain? » Mar 8, 18
- Fluoroquinolone toxicity warning » Mar 8, 18
- Reviving the RSS feed » Mar 8, 18
- Blog hibernation post script » Oct 27, 17
- Blog hibernation » Oct 18, 17
- Alex Hutchinson’s “7 pillars of running wisdom” » Oct 3, 17
- “Fascial release” is not emotional » Sep 19, 17
- Accessibility upgrade » Sep 18, 17
- New review a bit less bullish on cannabis » Sep 16, 17
- Is statin myalgia actually a thing? » Sep 15, 17
- Report on swimming benefits » Sep 14, 17
- Fresh evidence that sitting is not “the new smoking” » Sep 13, 17
- Pain is immune to logic » Sep 7, 17
- Patient advocacy is naturally at odds with professional tribalism and boosterism » Aug 29, 17
- Two good, clashing studies of the link between back pain and obesity » Aug 3, 17
- Supplements are not safe » Jul 26, 17
- Shooting the messenger’s website » Jul 25, 17
- Cervical myodural bridges: an obscure cause of neck pain? » Jul 21, 17
- Understand chronic pain before operating » Jul 6, 17
- Frozen shoulder bombshell: it ain’t self-limiting » Jun 29, 17
- Shoddy back pain information from Consumer Reports » Jun 28, 17
- Don’t get caught in the corrective exercise trap » Jun 14, 17
- Dubious study » Jun 7, 17
- Paleo sleeping (critical analysis for a laugh) » May 24, 17
- Fibromyalgia guide updates » May 19, 17
- Lifting technique article upgrade » May 18, 17
- New free book: Recovery Strategies » May 15, 17
- The sneaky pain of arterial tears » Apr 28, 17
- It’s the inflammation, stupid » Apr 26, 17
- Does ice impede healing? » Apr 21, 17
- New article about unwanted muscle contractions » Mar 22, 17
- Evidence and practice at odds » Mar 9, 17
- Accidental voice mail records visitor struggling with my website » Mar 6, 17
- A fibromyalgia success story » Mar 6, 17
- Being female and other ways to get neck pain » Feb 24, 17
- Two different takes on the same massage evidence » Feb 22, 17
- The mind and inflammation » Feb 15, 17
- Surrounded by assholes » Feb 7, 17
- Spectacularly unreliable MRI “results” » Feb 1, 17
- Wrong again, sort of, this time about vastus medialis isolation » Jan 20, 17
- 1000 Updates » Jan 13, 17
- Weed works for pain—major new report » Jan 13, 17
- The simplification trap » Jan 12, 17
- New Coyne of the Realm » Jan 10, 17
- Citation impossible for “sitting a lot causes back pain” » Jan 6, 17
- The 2016 Lars List: Best Content for Health Professionals » Jan 2, 17
- How does massage work? » Dec 31, 16
- Citation badly needed for “running on pavement is risky” » Dec 22, 16
- An anecdote about the trouble with anecdotes » Dec 21, 16
- What’s your problem? New category indexes » Dec 19, 16
- “Movement quality” still does not clearly predict injury » Dec 6, 16
- The massage pressure question (topic summary example) » Dec 1, 16
- Does vitamin D treat pain? Unknown! Maybe? » Nov 30, 16
- Chiro for migraine fails » Nov 28, 16
- Nervous-wreck monkeys are inflamed » Nov 28, 16
- We’re not just missing some pieces from a puzzle » Nov 25, 16
- Therapeutic ultrasound science is still lame » Nov 25, 16
- Why is exercise healthy? » Nov 24, 16
- Lots of updates about vitamin D, stretching, structuralism and more » Nov 21, 16
- Do not offer » Nov 14, 16
- How much evidence is enough? » Nov 9, 16
- Delayed onset muscle soreness — topic summary example » Nov 7, 16
- An article in Men’s Health by “Paul Ingraham” » Nov 4, 16
- Hotshot in the dark » Nov 1, 16
- Osmosis sucks water, not toxins » Oct 25, 16
- Summaries on the go » Oct 24, 16
- The revenge of the son of the myth of “placebos without deception” » Oct 18, 16
- The journal Manual Therapy will change its name » Oct 14, 16
- Mind your words » Oct 12, 16
- The one about “your article” » Oct 11, 16
- The mole rat’s superpower » Oct 11, 16
- Shortness of breath, now with more anxiety » Oct 11, 16
- Emoji debut » Oct 8, 16
- Phantom acupuncture! » Oct 7, 16
- The wilderness of the medically unexplained » Oct 7, 16
- Mysterious vanishing frozen shoulder » Oct 6, 16
- What’s new? A new “What’s New?” page, that’s what » Oct 6, 16
- A tale of two papers about structure and back pain » Oct 3, 16
- New article about pain types » Sep 7, 16
- Myths and Misconceptions about Explaining Pain » Sep 6, 16
- A shitty, freaky feeling » Sep 1, 16
- An avalanche of useless fibromyalgia research » Aug 31, 16
- Source of sources: how I find the good science » Aug 23, 16
- So many updates! Bloggin’ and loggin’ about new content » Aug 15, 16
- Axioms of Function » Aug 11, 16
- Vagus nerve stimulation as an anti-inflammatory » Aug 5, 16
- The ultimate paradox of pain and therapy » Aug 5, 16
- Posture and morality » Jul 25, 16
- We cannot trust our eyes (or our pain) » Jul 20, 16
- Correlation-causation clarifications » Jul 12, 16
- Actually, correlation kinda does imply causation » Jul 8, 16
- Pain and movement recalibration » Jul 6, 16
- Spider bite hurts in a whole new-to-science way » Jul 1, 16
- “And yet it moves”: new article about the IT band » Jun 30, 16
- EBM hijacked » Jun 29, 16
- The opioid crisis » Jun 20, 16
- MRI for back pain pros n cons comic » Jun 17, 16
- Good quality summaries of most important scientific papers about trigger points » Jun 16, 16
- An unusual new article about pain » Jun 16, 16
- Chiropractic detox » Jun 15, 16
- Major new content about the trigger point controversy, and my official (fence) position » Jun 8, 16
- Imagine if your soft tissues started to harden » Jun 8, 16
- Thoracic ring theory is “the epitome of fragilistic thinking” » May 27, 16
- “Deep” new article » May 13, 16
- New muscle microscope » May 11, 16
- It’s about prioritizing the treatment options (not demonizing them) » May 10, 16
- New study shows bullshit » May 10, 16
- Sketchy sleep increases pain sensitivity » May 9, 16
- How do disc herniations change over time? » Apr 28, 16
- Lumbar disk herniation has an uncertain natural history » Apr 21, 16
- TENS has a complicated, awesome cousin: pulsed electromagnetic field therapy » Apr 19, 16
- The emotional roller coaster of elusive cures » Apr 19, 16
- A status update on the writing of new books » Apr 18, 16
- Equally ineffective » Apr 12, 16
- Studying massage effects with aura photography » Apr 8, 16
- Biology knows best? Not so much » Apr 6, 16
- New feature article about electrotherapy » Apr 4, 16
- Infinite maintenance case study » Mar 18, 16
- Why clinical trial transparency matters to patients in the US » Mar 18, 16
- Pills or stuff or something for my headaches and stuff » Mar 15, 16
- 7 yoga myths » Mar 15, 16
- Is it okay to pay for a placebo? » Mar 14, 16
- Keep me posted » Mar 9, 16
- How deep does the heat of a heating pad go? » Mar 3, 16
- Practical ways to turn down pain sensitisation » Mar 2, 16
- The junky science justifying a hydration habit » Feb 29, 16
- There there, dear: dismissing female pain » Feb 23, 16
- The volcano god of pain » Feb 19, 16
- Our bacterial passengers don’t outnumber us after all » Feb 17, 16
- Telescopes, not brain scanners: some musings on the relationship between pain and tissue damage » Feb 16, 16
- Dry needling efficacy disagreement » Feb 16, 16
- Go with love » Feb 15, 16
- Finally doing 7-minute workout in 8 minutes » Feb 12, 16
- What does pain science have in common with other sensory science? » Feb 12, 16
- Reviving an old article about lifting and back pain » Feb 11, 16
- Explaining who disagrees with who and why » Feb 10, 16
- Dear Google » Feb 5, 16
- Too many updates to log » Feb 2, 16
- Joints popping … like flashbulbs? » Jan 28, 16
- Pain treatment troubleshooting formula » Jan 27, 16
- Slow-motion pandiculation » Jan 25, 16
- An interesting back pain treatment success » Jan 22, 16
- The Experiment Experiment » Jan 20, 16
- Intermittent spinal cord compression and fibromyalgia » Jan 18, 16
- Taping science update » Jan 16, 16
- How powerful is the placebo effect? » Jan 12, 16
- The worst possible causes of back pain (is a very popular topic) » Jan 11, 16
- Most painful tweet of 2015 » Jan 9, 16
- The Onion on running » Jan 6, 16
- The thought I’d like to leave you with » Dec 19, 15
- The pain-free future » Dec 14, 15
- The “Father of Fascia” is so over it » Nov 30, 15
- The limits of pain vocabulary » Nov 11, 15
- Like ripping duct tape off your skin » Nov 6, 15
- All about the science » Oct 23, 15
- Sitting is NOT the new smoking » Oct 20, 15
- Pain and suffering in sports » Oct 9, 15
- Where do stings hurt worst? » Sep 23, 15
- Rehab is all about getting the load juuust right » Sep 23, 15
- Mitochondrial power grids in muscle » Sep 19, 15
- EBM-First.com » Sep 14, 15
- Inevitably incorrect » Sep 12, 15
- More bacterial smoke than expected in low back pain (but still no fire) » Sep 8, 15
- This is why I work hard » Sep 1, 15
- Deep thought of the day: anecdotes really suck » Aug 26, 15
- Better citations needed: a big upgrade to the PainSci bibliography » Aug 20, 15
- I have faith in sports massage … for some reason » Aug 14, 15
- An exasperating contradiction in modern chronic pain management » Jul 17, 15
- Pain-causing pain-killers » Jul 7, 15
- Protein timing doesn’t matter » Jul 4, 15
- Placebo-without-deception is deceptive » Jun 30, 15
- Exercise works, except when it’s ineffective » Jun 24, 15
- Noisy knee satire » Jun 19, 15
- Keep it up! Neck pain reduced by long-term strengthening » Jun 18, 15
- You can’t rush it, but healing speeds up on its own » Jun 2, 15
- OTC pain-killers in under 140 words or bust! » May 30, 15
- Stress, biology, and pain » May 27, 15
- Better citation needed » May 26, 15
- Are aura atheists uncaring robots? » May 13, 15
- Electric bath » May 9, 15
- Sad, bad news about e-books and sleep » May 8, 15
- We feel what we fear » May 5, 15
- Rheumatoid arthritis and central sensitization » May 4, 15
- Brain stim fizzle » Apr 16, 15
- A bit of a mouthful » Apr 14, 15
- Pain is a motivator » Mar 19, 15
- Overcoming Pain with Gentle Yoga » Mar 16, 15
- The Secret Anarchy of Science » Mar 14, 15
- Placebo precision » Mar 14, 15
- Does swearing reduce pain? » Mar 13, 15
- Insider view of naturopathic training » Mar 13, 15
- Apt analogy » Mar 11, 15
- Googling symptoms » Mar 11, 15
- Sex and back pain » Mar 6, 15
- A literally stiff back » Mar 5, 15
- Video of weirdly rippling muscle » Mar 4, 15
- Nerve root wiggle room » Mar 2, 15
- IT band plungering » Feb 27, 15
- Missing the Woodstock of pain conferences » Feb 26, 15
- Are experimental injection treatments “worth a try”? » Feb 23, 15
- Free safety lesson! Is it safe to roll your head in a full circle? » Feb 18, 15
- There are no guiltless factions » Feb 16, 15
- Flesh still relevant » Feb 16, 15
- Bought and paid for » Feb 11, 15
- Flabbergasted by the fabella » Feb 9, 15
- Release me! » Feb 6, 15
- Acupuncture understatement » Feb 6, 15
- Make exercise as sexy as the scalpel » Feb 3, 15
- Guts are not for standing » Jan 29, 15
- Pressure vs shock waves: is there an (important) difference? » Jan 24, 15
- Stuck RSS » Jan 23, 15
- Positive trend » Jan 23, 15
- Written like an ad » Jan 22, 15
- Not just another weight loss story » Jan 22, 15
- Like storm fronts colliding » Jan 13, 15
- Overselling trigger point therapy » Jan 12, 15
- Metal rod embedded in arm painless for fifty years » Jan 9, 15
- Skeptical massage therapists unite » Dec 17, 14
- Historical perspective ugprades » Dec 8, 14
- Major new article about throat lumps » Dec 8, 14
- Like Shaggy from Scooby-Doo, but less scientific » Nov 26, 14
- More massage better » Nov 22, 14
- The big move » Nov 21, 14
- What could possibly go wrong? » Nov 13, 14
- Three pounds in a year » Nov 5, 14
- Seven flights » Nov 5, 14
- REJOICE, fibromyalgia sufferers! Your nightmare is over! » Oct 30, 14
- The state of medicine » Oct 30, 14
- Diabolically difficult » Oct 28, 14
- Between offices » Oct 28, 14
- A Systems Perspective on Chronic Pain » Oct 23, 14
- 1.83 metres under » Oct 15, 14
- 197, 198, 199 … 200! » Oct 14, 14
- Being wrong is popular » Oct 14, 14
- Not so FAST » Oct 14, 14
- I’m not an expert » Oct 10, 14
- Best mini-testimonial ever » Oct 9, 14
- FMS: Back to the drawing board? » Oct 9, 14
- Still not so ancient after all » Sep 30, 14
- The smell could almost be heard » Sep 30, 14
- Recommended reading about chiropractic … and lots of it » Sep 24, 14
- Phantom scratching is like pain » Sep 22, 14
- Baby steps remix » Sep 17, 14
- Prism Podcast » Sep 15, 14
- Ancient wisdom » Sep 14, 14
- Baby steps » Sep 11, 14
- Blood therapy, anyone? » Sep 11, 14
- Leaky old canoes » Sep 6, 14
- Audio article no. 7 » Aug 27, 14
- The fate of medicine without reductionism » Aug 27, 14
- “Positive” » Aug 26, 14
- Now basically rather “edited” » Aug 26, 14
- Testing magic » Aug 21, 14
- Carousel » Aug 20, 14
- I’m not holding my breath » Aug 20, 14
- Vibram gets vague » Aug 20, 14
- The chemistry of the burn » Aug 19, 14
- Peak musculoskeletal anatomy » Aug 19, 14
- Classic anatomy videos still going strong » Aug 4, 14
- Just exercise those thighs! » Aug 4, 14
- It doesn’t go to my head! » Aug 1, 14
- Is there hope? » Jul 31, 14
- Free speech » Jul 31, 14
- Neck pain updates » Jul 24, 14
- Explaining away treatment successes » Jul 24, 14
- Mark my words: a new e-book feature » Jul 22, 14
- Downward dog needs more dog » Jul 22, 14
- Too many choices » Jul 15, 14
- The weirdness of pain » Jul 15, 14
- An epic fail for pre-run stretching » Jul 9, 14
- Speaking of needles … » Jul 7, 14
- What’s the point? » Jul 7, 14
- Treat the animal, not the radiograph » Jul 3, 14
- It’s about time » Jul 2, 14
- Why fascia matters medically (get ready to cringe) » Jul 1, 14
- More painful audio » Jun 30, 14
- Shot by the witch » Jun 30, 14
- A million page views » Jun 29, 14
- Escape! » Jun 26, 14
- My worst pain ever » Jun 18, 14
- Cruciate repair non-crucial » Jun 18, 14
- The DOs and DO NOTs of running your first marathon » Jun 18, 14
- True story » Jun 18, 14
- Thumbs Up for the Scientific 7-Minute Workout » Jun 11, 14
- Foot strikes vary widely in elite runners » Jun 11, 14
- Are you a narcissist? » Jun 10, 14
- Soldiers and single moms » Jun 10, 14
- A vote for tolerance » Jun 10, 14
- My pro-science bias » Jun 7, 14
- The back is still important in back pain » Jun 7, 14
- Doubting doubts » Jun 6, 14
- Do you need a calf-stretching gadget? » May 29, 14
- Plasticity versus tolerance: they got more flexible, but how, dammit, HOW?! » May 28, 14
- For whatever it’s worth » May 28, 14
- The Better Movement Book » May 26, 14
- Americans Struggle to Stand Up » May 22, 14
- No real evidence that parachutes work » May 21, 14
- The “integrated medicine” straw-man » May 21, 14
- Kill pain, kill performance » May 15, 14
- Practitioners of “placebo enhancement” » May 15, 14
- Hyperaesthesia of the shins » May 15, 14
- Vibram spanked » May 9, 14
- The Cassidy paper » May 7, 14
- Pain without a name » May 6, 14
- Small study proves showers work » May 1, 14
- Placebo Paradox 2: The Mechanism » May 1, 14
- Satisfaction is not efficacy » May 1, 14
- So much “power”! » Apr 30, 14
- Spine wrangling » Apr 29, 14
- Inflatable back support? » Apr 29, 14
- It’s no Game of Thrones, but … » Apr 25, 14
- Consider the source » Apr 23, 14
- The two-legged dog and biomechanics » Apr 17, 14
- Stretch for torn muscles » Apr 15, 14
- No Heartbleed here » Apr 12, 14
- New book » Apr 10, 14
- Compression socks with tape » Apr 10, 14
- Two books edited, six to go » Apr 9, 14
- So … what does work, Mister Smartypants? » Apr 9, 14
- Vandal massage » Apr 3, 14
- Barefoot resource » Apr 2, 14
- New anecdote disclaimer » Apr 2, 14
- Neck Pain, Submerged! » Apr 1, 14
- Financially motivated ignorance » Apr 1, 14
- Calf size variability » Mar 27, 14
- Audiobooks project cancelled » Mar 27, 14
- The marble hand » Mar 27, 14
- The greatest hits of back pain science » Mar 26, 14
- A lot of science is junky » Mar 26, 14
- Follow-up on the baby’s broken neck story » Mar 25, 14
- Love letters from librarians » Mar 25, 14
- Goodbye PDF, hello lifetime access » Mar 20, 14
- When books don’t heal » Mar 20, 14
- A good friend advances medical science » Mar 19, 14
- The meaning of heel spurs » Mar 19, 14
- New massage for fibromyalgia study » Mar 18, 14
- Kwitcherbichen » Mar 18, 14
- Back to work and blogging » Mar 18, 14
- Many (unnannounced) updates and upgrades » Feb 10, 14
- A brief public appearance » Jan 6, 14
- Uh oh, success! » Nov 21, 13
- A tale of two taping papers » Nov 20, 13
- Memoirs of a female flight surgeon » Nov 19, 13
- A tug-of-war over scraps » Nov 19, 13
- Do our bones influence our minds? » Nov 19, 13
- Knee arthroscopy does not work » Nov 13, 13
- Not so new » Nov 7, 13
- New ligament » Nov 6, 13
- How many sets is enough? » Nov 5, 13
- Dissing dyskinesis » Oct 22, 13
- You too can learn to feel a hair! » Oct 21, 13
- Reflexology “science” » Oct 4, 13
- Therapy dominated by obsolete ideas » Oct 3, 13
- How to run really, really far » Oct 2, 13
- Tight hamstrings, back pain, and movement » Sep 24, 13
- Pain’s complexity » Sep 24, 13
- Bad biomarkers, good knee news » Sep 20, 13
- What’s a runner gotta do? » Sep 20, 13
- Touch-testing the world » Sep 19, 13
- Performance enhancement » Sep 19, 13
- The prodigy problem » Sep 17, 13
- How to dismiss science you don’t like » Sep 16, 13
- Not good enough, Pilates » Sep 12, 13
- Educated guesses » Sep 11, 13
- What people really look like » Sep 10, 13
- Pain vs. brain: a follow-up » Sep 5, 13
- Weights as good as a run? » Sep 5, 13
- Pain vs. 1600 pounds » Sep 4, 13
- Needless needles? » Aug 29, 13
- Because fascia » Aug 29, 13
- Biomechanicomplicated » Aug 29, 13
- Does [favourite massage method] work? » Aug 27, 13
- Enhanced placebos » Aug 22, 13
- Never give up » Aug 22, 13
- Is science your enemy? » Aug 22, 13
- Happy traffic stats, ScienceBasedMedicine.org news » Aug 20, 13
- Wonky knees » Aug 20, 13
- Hooray for thorough massage! » Aug 15, 13
- When to worry about back pain » Aug 14, 13
- Good screening news » Jul 31, 13
- Should I run recklessly? » Jul 30, 13
- Critical what? » Jul 30, 13
- Yoga for neck pain » Jul 25, 13
- More pain = more pain » Jul 23, 13
- Self-improvement through pain » Jul 23, 13
- Intelligent rabbit massage » Jul 22, 13
- Noise, noise, noise! » Jul 18, 13
- Risk vs benefit » Jul 17, 13
- “Disc” pain » Jul 16, 13
- AllTrials is going well » Jul 16, 13
- Terrible and wonderful » Jul 16, 13
- Good news about running » Jul 9, 13
- Painful neck = weak breathing » Jul 5, 13
- I’m officially more important now » Jul 2, 13
- Why is back pain still a huge problem? » Jul 2, 13
- Derpish stupidity » Jul 2, 13
- Holy spinal adjustment, Batman! » Jun 29, 13
- Knee surgery denounced by surgeons » Jun 26, 13
- Running still good for you » Jun 13, 13
- Science isn’t broken » Jun 8, 13
- Applied “Kinesiology” » Jun 7, 13
- Actual touch not included » Jun 4, 13
- Good questions about orthotics » Jun 4, 13
- Failed healing » Jun 4, 13
- Some gold standard » Jun 3, 13
- Objectivity » Jun 3, 13
- CRPS science “something of a mess” » May 31, 13
- Good reviews of crappy studies » May 31, 13
- Placebo PSA » May 31, 13
- Good back pain science news » May 30, 13
- The wrong notch » May 23, 13
- A taijiquan spelling bee » May 23, 13
- The anti-placebo » May 21, 13
- Progressive mythology » May 21, 13
- Blood injection treatment bombs a test » May 21, 13
- Service announcement for customers » May 17, 13
- Replication needed » May 15, 13
- Surprise run » May 15, 13
- The effects of sleep deprivation » May 14, 13
- Antibiotics for back pain reality check » May 10, 13
- I was wrong: muscle is cheap, not expensive » May 10, 13
- And then I read my email … » May 10, 13
- Two tiny quotes » May 9, 13
- Bad icing news? » May 7, 13
- Incurable shitty ankle » May 2, 13
- Jedi pain tricks! » May 1, 13
- Goodbye supplement confusion » Apr 23, 13
- Two links, one serious, the other … not » Apr 22, 13
- Affectionate or creepy? » Apr 22, 13
- Beeeep » Apr 19, 13
- We hates the DRMses, my preciousss » Apr 19, 13
- Pain changes how pain works » Apr 17, 13
- Modality empires » Apr 17, 13
- X-Ray video » Apr 15, 13
- Not what they seem » Apr 10, 13
- Homo sapiens: not as wimpy you thought » Apr 8, 13
- Tissue pathology does not explain chronic pain » Apr 5, 13
- Disc, schmisc » Apr 4, 13
- 1-Minute fibromyalgia video » Apr 2, 13
- Seven amusing alternatives to evidence-based medicine » Apr 1, 13
- Electric baths » Mar 28, 13
- Spinal infection? » Mar 26, 13
- Updated Tissue Provocation Therapies » Mar 22, 13
- Testing Treatments » Mar 22, 13
- More than placebo, less than medicine » Mar 18, 13
- Topical NSAID risks much lower than oral » Mar 15, 13
- One of my favourite history of medicine stories » Mar 14, 13
- “Negative” » Mar 13, 13
- Revenge of the Woo » Mar 13, 13
- Tissue state is just chemistry » Mar 13, 13
- Pelvic tilt » Mar 12, 13
- Interesting but not awfully important epiphenoma » Mar 11, 13
- An unfortunate trivialization » Mar 11, 13
- Two especially nice reader comments » Mar 11, 13
- Seriously, funny salt » Mar 8, 13
- Big fascia update » Mar 1, 13
- Dissection-perspective » Feb 27, 13
- Glucosaminimal » Feb 26, 13
- Sexy mental fitness » Feb 26, 13
- Perplexed » Feb 19, 13
- Stretching good for the heart » Feb 16, 13
- Good massage news » Feb 16, 13
- Big boner » Feb 13, 13
- 1,001 followers » Feb 12, 13
- Posture reactions » Feb 11, 13
- Posturology » Feb 11, 13
- Two Audiobooks Now Available » Feb 4, 13
- Unstable? Unreliable » Feb 4, 13
- Kinesio tape » Jan 24, 13
- Creatine-induced insomnia » Jan 19, 13
- AllTrials.net » Jan 10, 13
- Minute Medical School » Jan 8, 13
- Reston was not anaesthetized by acupuncture » Dec 8, 12
- Placebo surgeries » Dec 5, 12
- PNF stretching » Dec 3, 12
- Surgeon corrects my tone » Oct 21, 12
- Bad Science Watch » Jul 12, 12
- How smart is your right foot? » Dec 22, 11
- An awesome ebook upgrade » Apr 20, 11
- Bad science writer, bad! A major mea culpa » Dec 14, 10