SUMMARY A significant percentage of individuals with persistent pain continue to experience distressing symptoms despite our increased knowledge of neurophysiology and the availability of an expanded treatment armamentarium. This set of circumstances had resulted in growing awareness of the important…
SUMMARY Pain is an experience that affects the entire person; it involves a learning history and occurs within a social context. As a consequence, pain is much more than a sensation or a symptom of a disease. Pain involves not…
~ An important feature in the planning of any clinical trial regards the decisions made as to the outcome criteria that will be used to evaluate treatment efficacy. Traditionally, the outcomes used in both acute and chronic pain research have…
Psychological interventions for managing individuals experiencing chronic pain include a wide range of approaches and therapeutic targets. They are based on several theoretical perspectives. This chapter will first provide an overview of the basic principles and backgrounds on which psychological…
Introduction When a patient presents to a healthcare provider with a symptom of pain, the initial focus is on the patient’s medical history and the underlying pathology—a search to identify the “broken body part” that once identified is treated to…