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What’s the best image to represent evolution? Other than the obvious one, I mean? 😜 I did NOT want to use the "March of Progress"… paulingraham.com/whats-the-best…

If you want deep explanations for pain, you have to stare deeply into the abyss of deep time and biology. You need an EVOLUTIONARY perspective… PainScience.com/blog/3-ultimat…

“These findings challenge current theoretical models underlying cognitive-based pain management.” Undoubtedly more to come about this paper, but I’ll start with a basic share.

Some dogs understand pointing. But very few USE pointing.

2024 was my first year with an e-bike, and a great success, one of the most satisfying, useful things I’ve ever bought. E-biking is not a cure for whatever the 🤬 ails me, but it’s the next best thing: a powerful tool for COPING with the pain and malaise. tryeverything.substack.com/p/100-hours-on…

People FEEL tight, and so they enjoy and seek out “objective” confirmation of it from massage therapists—who are perhaps a little too happy to offer it. Tightness-validating teamwork. NEW POST, very short, 1-min: PainScience.com/blog/patients-…

Here are some simple points that were completely missed and misunderstood by many about our study: 1. People claimed that the therapists were not implementing what they learned. However, you cannot engage in COGNITIVE based interventions and not learn and implement! COGNITIVE

Vaegter et al. gave 5 citations to support the premise that “physical activity SHOULD be the primary intervention for individuals living with #chronicpain.” I checked them. If you want to feel good about science? Never check the citations. 🙁 painscience.com/blog/citation-…

Pain as an…EMOTION? A homeostatic emotion. I wasn’t interested in the paper at first. Some crankery there, maybe. But this 2003 paper turned out to be really cool! 😎 A substantive hypothesis about how pain works. NEW MEMBER POST! Free intro: PainScience.com/blog/pain-as-a…