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A recent bibliometric review of journals with ‘pain’ in the title revealed 19 journals (Chi et al., 2025). There is no shortage of research being published in the area of pain – and not a gnat’s chance of keeping up with all the papers published. Papers aren’t only published in these ‘pain’-oriented journals, they can be in many other journals.
And this raises some ...
Trust. A term we use to mean our belief in the reliability or truth of someone or something. An attitude or belief that involves allowing ourselves to be vulnerable to another; an expectation that another will act in a certain way even though we can’t be sure.
Trustworthiness is the inherent quali...
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for pain is sometimes seen as just about ‘giving up’ on reducing pain. TL:DR ACT doesn’t mean giving up
How on earth can that be? Isn’t it called ACT because it’s about ‘acceptance’?
Let’s unpack ‘acceptance.’
According to the Oxford Dictionary of Languages, acceptance means “the action of href="https://...
I’ve been thinking about person-centredness and what this means in practice recently. Person-centred or patient-centred was first used by psychologist Carl Rogers in the 1970s, later aligned with a biopsychosocial approach espoused by psychiatrist href="https://en.wikipedia....
When I read social media content about managing or treating pain, I get the feeling there’s some sort of competition going on. Brand X therapy gets Y outcomes – yay! Brand A gets B outcomes – we win! Almost as if brand loyalty matters.
If there were clearly better outcomes from Brand X, or better outcomes for some people from Brand A I might be willing to buy into t...
