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Chronic pain assessments in children and adolescents : a systematic literature review of the selection, administration, interpretation, and reporting of unidimensional pain intensity scales [PDF]

, 2017
Background. Advances in pain assessment approaches now indicate which measures should be used to capture chronic pain experiences in children and adolescents.
Cordingley, L, Ghio, D, Lee, RR, Rashid, A, Thomson, W   +4 more
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A randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of a single session of nurse administered massage for short term relief of chronic non-malignant pain [PDF]

, 2008
Background: Massage is increasingly used to manage chronic pain but its benefit has not been clearly established. The aim of the study is to determine the effectiveness of a single session of nurse-administered massage for the short term relief of ...
A Williamson, CM Ceccio, D Rankin-Box, Dawn Carroll, DM Eisenberg, E Ernst, GF Wiesenger, HJ McQuay, June Martin, Kate Seers, Katrina Coulson, M Preyde, MJ Campbell, Nicola Crichton, R Melzack, Royal College of Nursing, S Mills, T Field, T Field, TM Marteau, W Sunshine, White House Commission   +21 more
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Alexithymia in individuals with chronic pain and its relation to pain intensity, physical interference, depression, and anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Pain, 2019
Numerous studies have examined how alexithymia (difficulty identifying and describing one's emotions and a preference for externally oriented thinking) relates to chronic pain and associated disability.
R. Aaron, E. Fisher, Rocío de la Vega, M. Lumley, T. Palermo   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A medico-legal problem [PDF]

, 2013
Pain can be either acute or chronic. Acute pain, while deeply unpleasant, is vital to our survival; when it is no longer necessary, acute pain goes away. Chronic pain, on the other hand, serves no useful function, except to demoralise the sufferer,
Gauci, Charles A.
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Prefrontal gamma oscillations encode tonic pain in humans [PDF]

, 2015
Under physiological conditions, momentary pain serves vital protective functions. Ongoing pain in chronic pain states, on the other hand, is a pathological condition that causes widespread suffering and whose treatment remains unsatisfactory.
Gross, Joachim, May, Elisabeth S., Nickel, Moritz M., Ploner, Markus, Postorino, Martina, Schmidt, Paul, Schulz, Enrico, Tiemann, Laura, Witkovsky, Viktor   +8 more
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Impact of adverse childhood experiences on sensory thresholds in adults living with multimorbidity and chronic pain (the ACE-MAP study): protocol for an observational feasibility study

BMJ Open
Introduction Exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) is associated with a range of poor long-term health outcomes, including multimorbidity and chronic pain.
Louise Marryat, Blair H Smith, Lesley A Colvin, Dhaneesha N S Senaratne, Timothy G Hales   +4 more
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Chronic pelvic pain

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, 2016
Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) affects about 10-40% of women presenting to a physician, and is characterised by pain within the minor pelvis persisting for over 6 months.The Medline database was searched using the key words 'chronic pelvic pain' and 'pelvic congestion syndrome', published in English during the past 15 years.
openaire   +5 more sources

Virtual reality as an analgesic for acute and chronic pain in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Journal of Pain Research, 2019
Background: Previous studies have shown that virtual reality (VR) is effective in reducing acute and chronic pain both in adults and in children.
Brian Mallari, Emily K Spaeth, Henry Goh, Benjamin S. Boyd   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

“Brave Men” and “Emotional Women”: A Theory-Guided Literature Review on Gender Bias in Health Care and Gendered Norms towards Patients with Chronic Pain

Pain Research and Management, 2018
Background Despite the large body of research on sex differences in pain, there is a lack of knowledge about the influence of gender in the patient-provider encounter.
Anke Samulowitz, Ida Gremyr, E. Eriksson, G. Hensing   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Brain changes associated with cognitive and emotional factors in chronic pain : a systematic review [PDF]

, 2017
An emerging technique in chronic pain research is MRI, which has led to the understanding that chronic pain patients display brain structure and function alterations.
Alarcon, Apkarian, Apkarian, Armijo-Olivo, As-Sanie, Baliki, Baliki, Baliki, Barke, Bigos, Blankstein, Buckalew, Burgmer, Burton, Cabral, Cauda, Ceko, Ceko, Cifre, Crombez, Diaz Mohedo, Dureja, Elsenbruch, Etkin, Ferreira-Valente, Foerster, Geha, Gerstner, Glass, Glattacker, Gracely, Gupta, Gustin, Hauser, Hogstrom, Hong, Hsu, Ichesco, Jackson, Jackson, Jensen, Jensen, Khan, Kim, Kucyi, Lieberman, Lloyd, Lloyd, Loggia, Lutz, Malfliet, Melzack, Moher, Obermann, Riederer, Riskowski, Scheinost, Schmidt-Wilcke, Schmidt-Wilcke, Seminowicz, Seminowicz, Thomas, Valet, Vehof, Wiech, Wiech, Xu, Yu   +67 more
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