Hi all,

There are two types of "in your head" one is the type that we respond badly to when it is insinuated that we have control of our pain by "thinking happy thoughts" etc and then the type this article is referring to and that is that our pain is remembered by our brain which is why we still feel it long after the injury has healed.
This is what the mirror box and graded motor imagery programs work on and that is to try and trick the brain into a different mode of thinking.It seems to work well if done by a skilled physiotherapist.
I used to react very badly if I ever thought anyone thought this was a psychiatric illness but the truth of the matter is that there are a small minority of people for whom it is so we all often get tarred with the same brush by some of the medicos
Thanks for the artlicle--it was interesting.
Tayla