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Welcome to the blog.
Here is where you can find all of our writings about things we've read. This blog is regularly contributed to by members of the Pain Geeks Community. If you have any ideas or pieces that you'd like to share with the community, just reach out. We'd love to hear from you!


Why Terminologies Matter: How Language Shapes Pain Care
A conversation for clinicians navigating complexity By Laura Rathbone At Pain Geeks, we believe that words aren't just tools, they're...
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Jul 302 min read


Pain Geeks June reflection
Join us, co-founders Christine Petrides and Laura Rathbone, as we chat and reflect over thee last month in our community. You can watch...
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Jul 81 min read


The Cost of Pursuit: Ambition and Values in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Our first blog in a series exploring the themes of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and it's relevance to healthcare and understanding pain.
paingeekscommunity
Jun 35 min read


Pain News: Dr Tasha Stanton wins $2M research to study post-surgical knee pain - full interview
Yes! We are celebrating and highlighting the wins in pain research today as Laura Rathbone talks with Dr Tasha Stanton. Assoc. Professor...
paingeekscommunity
May 71 min read


Kubla Khan. A vision in a dream. A Fragment.
This Quarter our humanities piece takes us back to 1797 when, after a particularly psychedelic evening on laudanum, a young Thomas Taylor...
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Apr 74 min read


Does BDSM challenge the theory of classical conditioning?
Classical conditioning has long been used to explain how pain becomes associated with certain stimuli, shaping both acute and chronic...
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Mar 126 min read


Introducing Robert Mapplethorpe
By Laura Rathbone As a Queer woman and lifelong trans-ally, it's hard for me to pass up an opportunity to share important work from the...
paingeekscommunity
Feb 205 min read


Our Core Values at Pain Geeks: Building a Community of Evidence-Based Clinicians
At Pain Geeks, we’re passionate about creating a community that’s dedicated to evidence-based learning and critical engagement. We...
paingeekscommunity
Jan 223 min read


Pain, passion and learning
This quarter we are exploring Classical Conditioning, a theory of associative learning that can link behaviours and experiences with...
paingeekscommunity
Jan 62 min read


Memory, Pain, and the Self
Reflections Inspired by this quarter's Pain Geeks book club selection: The Making of Memory by Steven Rose by Laura Rathbone Super Geeks...
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Dec 2, 20244 min read


The Persistence of Memory: mind-altering drugs and the pain of the past
By Laura Rathbone Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they...
paingeekscommunity
Oct 11, 20244 min read


When Breath Becomes Air: Life, Meaning and Mortality
By Laura Rathbone BA BSc MSc Part one: a good life Part two: a good death "I could hear Emma's voice again: You have to figure out what's...
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Oct 7, 20244 min read


When Breath Becomes Air Part II: Caelica 83
By: Abby Gordon We’re just over a week away – check your calendars for Monday, September 30th (USA East Coast 7:30AM, USA West Coast...
Abby Gordon
Sep 23, 20243 min read


When Breath Becomes Air: What is patient-guided treatment?
By Christine Petrides BA, BSc Physiotherapy In perfect health I begin, Cease not till death I was enthralled by this book, I could barely...
Christine Petrides
Sep 19, 20244 min read


Living with Persistent Pain since 25: Sashira's Story
Sashira takes us with her on her experience of developing persistent pain, the process of understanding, the struggle of living with it.
Sashira Deniya
Aug 21, 202415 min read
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