In a study examining pain and changes in cognitions, symptoms and affect, Davis and colleagues randomized 143 women diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis to mindfulness and […]
Read more →Patients with a history of trauma are at an increased risk of developing chronic pain.1 The dysregulation of inflammatory responses due to early life stress […]
Read more →Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain (CLBP) present a higher economic burden to society and insurance payers than those without CLBP.1 This is largely due […]
Read more →How can mindfulness help people in pain? I describe my experience in an article, Mindful Awareness Training: A promising treatment approach for persistent pain, recently […]
Read more →In a study by Zeidan and colleagues, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to investigate the neural mechanisms modulating pain perception in 15 healthy […]
Read more →In a study by Andrsik and colleagues, patients with a history of migraine headache for at least 10 years and overuse of triptans and NSAIDS for […]
Read more →A qualitative study by Doran examined how a mindfulness-based therapy impacted perceptions and management of chronic back pain in 16 individuals with a pain duration […]
Read more →Garland and colleagues propose that reduced subjective reward and diminished reward-associated brain activity in response to natural rewards contribute to the etiology of opioid misuse […]
Read more →Research examining clinical populations suggests stress plays a role in persistent pain and disability.[1–4] In addition, laboratory studies with rodents have illuminated possible peripheral mechanisms that […]
Read more →In a recent study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, 342 individuals with chronic low back pain with a mean pain duration […]
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