Chronic pain: an update on burden, best practices, and new advances

SP Cohen, L Vase, WM Hooten - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Chronic pain exerts an enormous personal and economic burden, affecting more than 30%
of people worldwide according to some studies. Unlike acute pain, which carries survival …

Nociplastic pain: towards an understanding of prevalent pain conditions

MA Fitzcharles, SP Cohen, DJ Clauw, G Littlejohn… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Nociplastic pain is the semantic term suggested by the international community of pain
researchers to describe a third category of pain that is mechanistically distinct from …

Prevalence of chronic pain among adults in the United States

RJ Yong, PM Mullins, N Bhattacharyya - Pain, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Chronic pain is associated with reduced quality of life, increased medical expenditures, and
significant economic costs. Chronic pain is among the most common chronic conditions in …

Chronic pain and high-impact chronic pain among US adults, 2019

CE Zelaya, JM Dahlhamer, JW Lucas, EM Connor - 2020 - stacks.cdc.gov
Data from the National Health Interview Survey In 2019, 20.4% of adults had chronic pain
and 7.4% of adults had chronic pain that frequently limited life or work activities (referred to …

Medical cannabis or cannabinoids for chronic non-cancer and cancer related pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials

L Wang, PJ Hong, C May, Y Rehman, Y Oparin… - Bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
Objective To determine the benefits and harms of medical cannabis and cannabinoids for
chronic pain. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data sources MEDLINE …

A narrative review of molecular mechanism and therapeutic effect of cannabidiol (CBD)

J Peng, M Fan, C An, F Ni, W Huang… - Basic & clinical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cannabidiol (CBD) is an abundant non‐psychoactive phytocannabinoid in cannabis
extracts which has high affinity on a series of receptors, including Type 1 cannabinoid …

[HTML][HTML] The anatomy of pain and suffering in the brain and its clinical implications

D De Ridder, D Adhia, S Vanneste - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential
tissue damage. Chronic pain, with a prevalence of 20–30% is the major cause of human …

Caring for patients with pain during the COVID‐19 pandemic: consensus recommendations from an international expert panel

H Shanthanna, NH Strand, DA Provenzano… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Chronic pain causes significant suffering, limitation of daily activities and reduced quality of
life. Infection from COVID‐19 is responsible for an ongoing pandemic that causes severe …

A meta‐analysis of the associations of elements of the fear‐avoidance model of chronic pain with negative affect, depression, anxiety, pain‐related disability and pain …

AH Rogers, SG Farris - European Journal of Pain, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background and objective Biopsychosocial conceptualizations of clinical pain conditions
recognize the multi‐faceted nature of pain experience and its intersection with mental …

The social threats of COVID-19 for people with chronic pain

K Karos, JL McParland, S Bunzli, H Devan, A Hirsh… - Pain, 2020 - journals.lww.com
The COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has changed the social environment in which
people live and work, as well as the social systems they rely on. 39, 88 To contain the …