I visualise my knee pain as a sea urchin. It is a spiky living thing that takes me by surprise. The poison from its spines spreads down...

Pleasant sensations are thought to share overlapping neural circuitry with pain. The idea is that through distraction with gentle...

Now that I've finished studying I am slowly easing myself into my new identity as a pain coach. One thing that I am doing every few days...

Humans are visual creatures and so it makes sense that some people living with chronic pain experience pain imagery. This is the...

A few months ago I created a beautiful flare up presentation with lots of mid journey (A.I generated) images. The purpose was to help...

When chatting to a friend about her experience of living with fibromyalgia she described it as walking around the edges of a dark hole...

This A.I generated image conjures the sense of pressure that I feel when in the throws of a migraine. It misses the black spiders...

These images are from Deborah Padfield’s book Perception of Pain. She collaborated with pain patients to help create visual tools to...

Just as we are vulnerable to catching a cold when we are tired, run down or stressed so too are we more likely to experience pain in the sam

Thank you Sean Mackey for the catchy title of this blog. His slides from his lecture on the neuroscience of pain can be found here I will...