Mindfulness physical therapy, pain management, rehabilitation

Posts Tagged Carolyn McManus

Mindfulness and Sleep

Patients with chronic insomnia are thought to suffer hyperarousal and experience mind-racing and rumination when trying to fall asleep. Training in mindful awareness is hypothesized […]

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Mindfulness and Chronic Migraine

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 […]

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Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Pain Inhibition

In a randomized controlled study examining the effect of Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) on the modulation of spinal nociceptive transmission, measures of the nociceptive flexor […]

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Mindfulness and Pain Qualitative Study

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 […]

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Mindfulness Training Improves Provider Well-Being

Healthcare providers are under increasing stress and vulnerable to burnout due to multiple factors including productivity expectations, reduced reimbursement, changing documentation requirements and time consuming […]

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Pain, Opioids and Mindfulness

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 […]

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Stress, Pain and Mindfulness

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 […]

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Mindfulness and Low Back Pain

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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