A tendency to perceive pain as an irreparable or unjust experience may vary widely between people and across situations. Sullivan and colleagues have termed this pattern of thinking “injustice perception”, and have proposed that it ...
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Injustice Perception in Chronic Pain: Shaped Through Expectation and Experience
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Physiotherapists struggle to identify and deal with psychological factors in chronic low back pain
Psychological factors including catastrophizing, fear of movement and psychological distress are predictors of negative outcomes in patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP).[1] Furthermore, patients with CLBP often have comorbid depressive and anxiety disorders.[2] Healthcare professionals involved ...
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What about the clinimetric properties of sensorimotor measurement instruments?
That chronic low back pain (CLBP) is associated with functional and structural changes in the central nervous system is difficult to dispute and subject to wide-ranging ongoing research (Moseley and Flor, 2012, Omori et al., ...
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Cognitive Biases and Young People’s Pain Experiences: What do we know and where to go next?
Many children and teenagers are affected by chronic pain, which can negatively impact their day-to-day activities, how they feel, and their likelihood of future health problems[1,2,3,4]. Psychological therapies are effective at treating pain and related ...
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CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION or CONCERN? Thoughts on using left/right judgment tasks in clinical practice.
Introducing left/right judgement tasks (LRJTs) into clinical practice and using them in the management of individuals with chronic pain is, I think, something to celebrate and a success story for translational research. Seminal work on ...