Jan-Paul van Wingerden

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Why does the primary somatosensory cortex change in (some) chronic pain patients?

There is a vast amount of literature on how the somatosensory cortex changes in chronic pain. What is less clear is WHY this happens. What is the purpose. What is the brain attempting to perceive?...

06 February 2014 5,919 14 View

Shall we abandon the term non-specific low back pain? If so what is the alternative?

The term non-specific (or a-specific) back pain is very confusing. For many it suggests that the pain has no specific cause. In fact, if this was the case we could't treat such pain, because the...

22 October 2012 1,101 60 View

Can anyone tell me how and in what kind or creature the first joint developed?

Somewhere in evolution the first real joint must have developed. I just don't seem to be able to find the creatures that developed a joint and how the process took place. Was there first first...

04 October 2012 9,577 4 View