In 2008 (eek, that’s a decade ago…) I began my faculty career as an attending psychologist in the newly minted Mayo Family Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Center (PPRC) at Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. I ...
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Will this pain treatment program make my child better?
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A break from pain! How do task interruptions by pain affect performance?
Pain is unpleasant but important for our survival: it is almost as if it is “designed” to tell us that we are in danger. Since people are often busy with something when pain occurs, the ...
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Unravelling Fibromyalgia
Oh for the dream of precision medicine in the world of fibromyalgia (FM)! But how can one possibly apply precision medicine to a condition with the character of a chameleon? Why do we say FM ...
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Implementation science and its use in low back pain research
The implementation of evidence into practice, even today, where science plays a role in much of our lives, is an elusive task. This challenge in health care is perhaps most vividly demonstrated in the back ...
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Pain catastrophising: How can we best deal with it?
How can we best reduce pain catastrophizing in adults with chronic pain? Pain catastrophizing is one of the most widely studied psychological constructs in pain science and perhaps the strongest psychological predictor of poor pain outcomes. The more you freak out, the worse things get.