Substantial attention has been given to the impact of negative emotional states on persistent pain conditions. The adverse effects of anger, fear, anxiety and depression […]
Read more →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 →In a recent review article, Nijs and colleagues examine the role of chronic or severe stress and sleep disturbance in promoting aberrant glial activity which, […]
Read more →The mind can have a powerful influence on the experience of pain. I sometimes describe the following study to patients to demonstrate the influence of […]
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 […]
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