Socioeconomic Factors and Work Disability: Clues to Managing Chronic Pain Disorder by Robert W Teasell, Hillel M Finestone

“…Disability is a multifactorial phenomena in chronic pain disorders, as it is for other painful and nonpainful medical conditions. …”
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Development and Validation of the French-Canadian Chronic Pain Self-Efficacy Scale by Anaïs Lacasse, Patricia Bourgault, Yannick Tousignant-Laflamme, Roxanne Courtemanche-Harel, Manon Choinière

“…BACKGROUND: Perceived self-efficacy is a non-negligible outcome when measuring the impact of self-management interventions for chronic pain patients. However, no validated, chronic pain-specific self-efficacy scales exist for studies conducted with French-speaking populations.…”
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Healing synchrony? potential benefits of interpersonal synchrony for chronic pain management by Justyna Świdrak, Justyna Świdrak

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The Life Adjustment Process in Chronic Pain: Psychosocial Assessment and Clinical Implications by Ann-Christine Gullacksen, Jan Lidbeck

“…Previously, the subjective dimension of suffering from chronic pain has only infrequently been reported in the literature. …”
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Enhancing self-management in chronic pain: Reflections on a qualitative study by John Patrick C. Toledo

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Cannabinoids and Their Role in Chronic Pain Treatment: Current Concepts and a Comprehensive Review by Islam Shehata, Ahmed Hashim, Ahmed Saad Elsaeidy, Anagha Nair, Ivan Urits, Omar Viswanath, Alan D. Kaye, Marian Habib

“…For decades, chronic pain was managed with an almost conventional approach of using a wide range of analgesic spectrum, surgical approaches and complex interventional pain techniques to modulate or even interrupt pain pathways. …”
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A Diathesis-Stress Model of Chronic Pain and Disability following Traumatic Injury by Dennis C Turk

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Drugs for Chronic Pain in Children: A Commentary on Clinical Practice and the Absence of Evidence by Marie-Claude Grégoire, G Allen Finley

“…Pediatric chronic pain is widespread, under-recognized and undertreated. …”
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Cross-Cultural Validation of the English Chronic Pain Myth Scale in Emergency Nurses by Geraldine Martorella, Anaïs Lacasse, Michelle Kostic, Glenna Schluck

“…Utilization of the emergency department (ED) by patients seeking relief from chronic pain (CP) has increased. These patients often face stigmatization, and the ED is no exception. …”
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The Role of Health Anxiety among Patients with Chronic Pain in Determining Response to Therapy by Heather D Hadjistavropoulos, Gordon JG Asmundson, Diane L LaChapelle, Allisson Quine

“…Considerable research suggests that health anxiety (HA) influences the response of patients with chronic pain to pain and treatment. The present investigation extends the current understanding of HA and explores whether it affects how patients respond to a common therapeutic intervention, namely instructions to reduce pain behaviour. …”
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Evidence of a Relationship between Adult Attachment Variables and Appraisals of Chronic Pain by Pamela J Meredith, Jenny Strong, Judith A Feeney

“…OBJECTIVE: Although threat and challenge appraisals of pain have been linked to both the acute and laboratory-induced pain experience, these appraisals have not yet been explored in relation to chronic pain. In addition, although attachment theory has been separately linked to the chronic pain experience and to responses to perceived threat, it has not been explored in the context of threat and challenge appraisals of chronic pain. …”
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Pain Vision System for Evaluating Chronic Pain: A Comparison with VAS Scoring by Bao-Kai Wang, Tang-Hua Liu, Fang Xie, Yan-Qing Liu

“…To study the value of pain vision system in quantitative evaluation of chronic pain from the perspective of neuroelectrophysiology, as compared with VAS (visual analog scale). …”
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Chronic pain in a family doctor practice – meaning, assessment, and therapeutic options by Dominika Prokop, Mikołaj Borek, Jan Baran, Dawid Rowiński, Oliwia Sikora, Katarzyna Chamera-Cyrek, Aneta Podczerwińska, Clara Kuzminski

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Integrated bioinformatics analysis of the effects of chronic pain on patients with spinal cord injury by Jinlong Zhang, Jinlong Zhang, Longju Qi, Yuyu Sun, Yuyu Sun, Shiyuan Chen, Jinyi Liu, Jiaxi Chen, Fangsu Yan, Wenqi Wang, Qinghua Wang, Liang Chen

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The Role of Vitamin D in the Management of Chronic Pain in Fibromyalgia: A Narrative Review by Hannah W. Haddad, Allison C. Jumonville, Katarina J. Stark, Shavonne N. Temple, Chukwudum C. Dike, Elyse M. Cornett, Alan D. Kaye

“…Additionally, high-quality studies are warranted to fully elucidate the potential of vitamin D to manage chronic pain in FM.…”
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Occurrence and assessment of chronic pain fatigue and sleep disturbance in axial spondyloarthritis patients by Eman Abdel Ghani Sayed, Samer Samy, Faruk Ali Abdi, Anna Abou-Raya

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Factors determining the painfulness of electroneuromyography by U. Ališauskaitė, D. Garšvienė, J. Švilpauskė-Laurynienė, M. Ališauskienė

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The impact of biofeedback in enhancing chronic pain rehabilitation: A systematic review of mechanisms and outcomes by Andrea Calderone, Vincenza Maura Mazzurco Masi, Rosaria De Luca, Antonio Gangemi, Mirjam Bonanno, Daniela Floridia, Francesco Corallo, Giovanni Morone, Angelo Quartarone, Maria Grazia Maggio, Rocco Salvatore Calabrò

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Chronic Pain in Canada: Have We Improved Our Management of Chronic Noncancer Pain? by Aline Boulanger, Alexander J Clark, Pamela Squire, Edward Cui, GLA Horbay

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Experimental Pain Responses in Children with Chronic Pain and in Healthy Children: How Do They Differ? by Jennie CI Tsao, Subhadra Evans, Laura C Seidman, Lonnie K Zeltzer

“…BACKGROUND: Extant research comparing laboratory pain responses of children with chronic pain with healthy controls is mixed, with some studies indicating lower pain responsivity for controls and others showing no differences. …”
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