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A swift lesson about PAIN - part three

The third and final destination in our whistle-stop tour of pain is nociplastic pain, also known as central sensitisation. 

We have covered...

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To treat or to manage?

Manual therapy has a reputation for being, well, manual. Hands-on. The use of one person's hands (and the occasional elbow) to help another person...

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Is Time a Good Healer?

Time is a big topic in back pain.

  • How long did the pain take to develop?
  • How long did the pain take to go away?
  • Is there a time of day when...
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Patterns in Back Pain

All too often in clinic, Graeme and Toby hear patients arrive with a diagnosis for their low back pain that has been given to them by someone else....

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Does education FIX people with back pain?

Now, here's a good question: "does education fix people?"

On the surface, you'd think, "how can it?"

Well, the truth as we know it is that...

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Where did the idea for BackPain.online come from?

Graeme and Toby have worked as private osteopaths for many years.

At the end of a busy Saturday morning a few years ago, they talked about just how...

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