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Everybody hurts, but not everybody keeps hurting. The unlucky few who do end up on a downward spiral of economic, social and physical disadvantage. While we don’t know why some people don’t recover from…
Imagine that a soft touch or brush of the skin was enough to evoke excruciating pain. This experience is common among people who suffer with chronic pain from nerve damage. The causes are varied and include…
People with resigned attitudes to work are more likely to suffer from persistent lower back pain than those with positive…
Laughing with friends for around 15 minutes boosts a person’s pain threshold by an average of 10%, an international study has found. Laughter has long been associated with well-being, even inspiring a…
British researchers say they have identified the gene that controls chronic pain, opening the door to new drug therapies that block the chemical processes that cause chronic back pain, headaches or arthritis…
Switch on daytime television on any given day and you’d be forgiven for thinking there was a cure for the debilitating and dreaded condition, osteoarthritis. Unfortunately, there’s not. And that’s not…
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Conjoint Clinical Associate Professor, Deakin University School of Medicine and Specialist Pain Medicine Physician, Deakin University
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Professor, Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Clinical Neurosciences and Foundation Chair in Physiotherapy, University of South Australia
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Professor, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor and Deputy Director, Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University
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Professor of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy, Curtin University
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Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Bath
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Academic Fellow, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Pharmacology, University of Arizona
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Professor, University of Sydney
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Reader in Clinical Health Psychology & Science, Medicine & Society Network, UCL
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Reader in Medical Anthropology, Birmingham City University
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Professor of Population Health Science, University of Dundee
