Is pain a perception or an experience? It’s my opinion that by calling my pain a “perception”, we are further driving the stigma surrounding people in pain. To read more about the stigma surrounding pain, check out these articles HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE. The short of it, is that…

Sticks and stones may break my bones, and the words my clinician uses can also hurt me. Sounds crazy, but it’s not. Whether you’re into pain science or not, we’re all probably familiar with the placebo effect to some extent. We’ve all heard stories about someone receiving a sham treatment…

There seems to be a lot of confusion with regard to nociception and pain. These two are constantly used synonymously when, in reality, they are different than one another. To explain this, we need to start from the beginning and explain what nociception is and how it works. Nociceptors, commonly…