Common brain mechanisms of chronic pain and addiction

I Elman, D Borsook - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
While chronic pain is considered by some to be a CNS disease, little is understood about
underlying neurobiological mechanisms. Addiction models have heuristic value in this …

Chronic pain and cognitive behavioral therapy: an integrative review

R Knoerl, EM Lavoie Smith… - Western journal of …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is often used to treat chronic pain; however, more
information is needed about what are the most efficacious dose and delivery methods. The …

Understanding persons with psychological distress in primary health care

T Arvidsdotter, B Marklund, S Kylén… - … journal of caring …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this study was to gain more knowledge and a deeper understanding of
experiences of persons living with psychological distress who seek help in primary care …

Graded chronic pain scale revised: mild, bothersome, and high-impact chronic pain

M Von Korff, LL DeBar, EE Krebs, RD Kerns, RA Deyo… - Pain, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Drawing on advances in chronic pain metrics, a simplified Graded Chronic Pain Scale-
Revised was developed to differentiate mild, bothersome, and high-impact chronic pain …

Adverse impacts of chronic pain on health-related quality of life, work productivity, depression and anxiety in a community-based study

K Kawai, AT Kawai, P Wollan, BP Yawn - Family practice, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background Chronic pain has major clinical and social consequences. Few studies have
examined any variation in the extent of impairment on quality of life and work productivity by …

Research priorities in pelvic venous disorders in women: recommendations from a multidisciplinary research consensus panel

NM Khilnani, MH Meissner, LA Learman… - Journal of vascular and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Pelvic venous disorders (PeVDs) in women can present with chronic pelvic pain, lower-
extremity and vulvar varicosities, lower-extremity swelling and pain, and left-flank pain and …

UK Medical Cannabis registry: an analysis of clinical outcomes of medicinal cannabis therapy for chronic pain conditions

M Harris, S Erridge, M Ergisi, D Nimalan… - Expert review of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives To explore pain-specific, general health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and
safety outcomes of chronic pain patients prescribed cannabis-based medicinal products …

Central sensitization and the biopsychosocial approach to understanding pain

LM Adams, DC Turk - Journal of Applied Biobehavioral …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Medical interventions alone have been largely unsuccessful in treating and curing disorders
characterized by chronic pain like central sensitivity syndromes (CSS; eg, fibromyalgia …

[HTML][HTML] The psychological functioning in the COVID-19 pandemic and its association with psychological flexibility and broader functioning in people with chronic pain

L Yu, K Kioskli, LM McCracken - The journal of pain, 2021 - Elsevier
Aims: People with chronic pain may be particularly vulnerable to the impact of the pandemic
COVID-19, and psychological flexibility may protect them. This study investigates …

Psychosocial factors in painful diabetic neuropathy: a systematic review of treatment trials and survey studies

K Kioskli, W Scott, K Winkley, S Kylakos… - Pain …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Objective Diabetes mellitus is associated with a number of complications that can adversely
impact patients' quality of life. A common and often painful complication is painful diabetic …