By Dershness Devan, In the words of pain neuroscience guru David Butler “Knowledge is the Greatest Pain Liberator of all” (Butler, 2013). This is something I have personally experienced with my patients. I guess the question really is how and why does it work?

By Dershnee Devan, Something all of us face but seems worse with chronic pain? I have used activity scheduling and goal setting many times with my patients over the years. This works to target the boom bust cycle and fear avoidance that people who suffer from chronic pain often engage in.

By Dershnee Devan, Rene Descartes was one of the first philosophers to describe the somatosensory pathway of pain with the above portrayal of a boy with his foot in the fire where the peripheral input (fire) results in pain (Moayedi & Davis, 2013). However,

By Dershnee Devan, proposed a model of pain that was far ahead of its time in 1980. At that time, the medical fraternity at large viewed pain from a biomedical perspective. It proposed that the experience of pain was covered by four nested circles that held the components of pain namely nociception, pain, suffering and pain behaviour.