It's nice to meet you! I did go and read the study your link lead me to, and it was a bit interesting. But I would have to say that overall, I have to agree with Sydney. Those of us who live with chronic pain have been so swamped with recent research, and given so many blind promises, that it's really hard for us to take any one report very seriously.

Not long ago I read another report in which fMRI images and patient responses were also used to prove that doing a simple puzzle, or carrying on a conversation, also lowered the levels of perceived pain. It claimed that the human spinal cord is capable of carrying a finite amount of information, and that by using up this capacity with other tasks, there was less "room" for the pain to get through.

I will never stop reading these articles, as I consider them a part of my ongoing research into pain. But it's very hard to get excited by any one of them. I thank you for trying to help, though, and hope you understand...

Idealist