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Showing 1 to 20 of 440 for “"Chronic pain"”.
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Psychoneuroimmunology and Chronic Pain
<p>There is increasing evidence linking chronic pain to altered levels of central nervous system (CNS) inflammation and increased levels of perceived pain, anxiety, depression and sleep disturbance. However the inflammatory molecules responsible for physiologic and psychological components of …
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Mechanisms Underlying Chronic Pain
Based on duration, pain is categorized as acute and chronic pain. Acute pain is a short-term phenomenon that resolves after the noxious stimulus is removed or the injury is healed. On the other hand, chronic pain is a long-lasting debilitating condition. In a substantial number of cases, acute pain …
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Explanatory models of chronic pain
Chronic pain is described as pain that persists for six months or longer. This type of pain may range from dull to excruciating and may be constant or sporadic. The purpose of this study was to explore the explanatory models of individuals living in chronic pain. The study sample included twelve …
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Meaningful daily activity and chronic pain
When assessing chronic pain patients (CPP) a series of measures are routinely used to evaluate the severity of symptoms including: pain, psychological distress, disability, illness perception, positive affect and current treatments to manage chronic pain (CP). Clinicians also routinely administer …
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Online Psychoeducational Therapy for Chronic Pain
<p>The pain experience consists of many factors including biological, psychological, social and spiritual that can exacerbate and perpetuate it, often leading to chronic pain. Provision of an online psychoeducational course, inclusive of social networking capabilities, offers remote access to …
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Childhood and Adolescent Adversity and Chronic Pain
… relationship between early life adversities and chronic pain later in life, with a focus on the temporal nature of the relationship and proposed moderating factors, such as the type, timing, and intensity of the adverse experience, whether or not it resulted in physical harm, and the presence or …
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Chronic Pain Profiles and Past Bullying Experiences
<p>The biopsychosocial model of chronic pain posits that chronic pain is influenced by factors such as depression, somatization, and psychological trauma (Gatchel, Peng, Peters, Fuchs, & Turk, 2007). Being bullied in childhood is one such factor that has been shown to be associated with chronic …
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Cognitive and Psychophysiological Investigation of Chronic Pain
… it was hypothesized that the experience of chronic pain may be functionally similar to a mood state and that the chronicity of the condition may maintain it as a current concern. Specifically, it was hypothesized that chronic pain patients would not show any differences in reaction time and …
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Emerging Adults and Chronic Pain: Exploring the Impact of Chronic Pain on Emerging Adults and their Ability to Adapt
… regard to love, work, and worldviews. Although chronic pain is typically not life threatening, it does pose a myriad of psychosocial challenges to emerging adults as they work to achieve developmental milestones such as identity formation and relationship building. As physical and mental health …
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CAS with Art and Chronic Pain: The Effects of Clearing a Space with Art on Women with Chronic Pain
… (FOAT) approach (Rappaport, 2009) on women with chronic pain. It was hypothesized that Clearing a Space with Art would lead to measurable decreases in anxiety, depression and stress, increases in mindful awareness, decreases in pain intrusion and pain perception, and increases in pain …
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Surviving and thriving: an integrated critical theory of chronic pain from stories of urban American Indians living with chronic pain
… by discerning relationships between chronic pain and colonization and developing an integrated critical theory of chronic pain. Methods: This study uses a concurrent transformative mixed methods design with in-depth interviews and a survey (n=40) from self- identified American Indian …
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Cognitive mechanisms in comorbid insomnia and chronic pain
The present study examined the relation between pain catastrophizing, pre-sleep arousal (PSA), and insomnia severity in chronic pain patients. Forty-eight outpatients with chronic pain (duration of 6 months or more) completed self-report measures of health, mood, pain, and sleep. A hierarchical …
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Benchmarking outcomes for psychological treatments of chronic pain
… for published psychological treatments of chronic pain for application within routine clinical settings. Benchmarking outcomes is relatively common for psychological treatments in the mental health field, but in spite of the prevalence of chronic pain and its known impact on many areas of …
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Chronic Pain Management in the Inpatient Care Setting
… comfort level of nurses caring for patient with chronic pain, as well as patient satisfaction with nursing pain interventions on an inpatient medical surgical unit with a high population of patients with chronic pain (as much as 30%). Nurses and patients were surveyed using a brief survey to …
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Assessment of family impact in pediatric chronic pain
<p>Pediatric chronic pain causes significant interference in daily functioning for children and their families. While parents and families have been examined in previous research, gaps exist in the current literature base, particularly related to accurate conceptualization and assessment of family …
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Comorbid opioid dependence and chronic pain: Clinical implications
<b>Context</b>: Chronic pain and opioid dependence confer substantial individual and societal burdens and are notoriously difficult to treat effectively. Their comorbid presentation further complicates effective treatment through complex physiological and environmental …
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Levels of physical activity in people living with chronic pain: Do they change after participating in a Chronic Pain Management Program?
… levels of physical activity in people with chronic pain change after participating in a Chronic Pain Management Program (CPMP) at Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH). Methods: A pre-experimental pre-test, post-test study was conducted, consisting of 14 men and women suffering from chronic pain who …
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Ethnocultural Differences in Chronic Pain Outcomes and Factors Related to Chronic Pain in Individuals Referred for Neuropsychological Assessment Following Closed Head Injury
Ethnocultural differences in chronic pain presentation were studied in clients undergoing neuropsychological assessment following closed head injury. Data were collected at two sites: an outpatient clinic in Novi, Michigan, and a private practice in Edmonton, Alberta. Measures of interest included …
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Information Processing In Chronic Pain: The Role Of Depression
Over the last three decades, chronic pain has become conceptualized as a multidimensional phenomenon, in that cognitive and emotional factors have become acknowledged as important contributors to the experience and expression of chronic pain. Although this general theoretical understanding of …
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