It’s common knowledge that pain problems and mental illness will affect many of us over the course of our lives [1-4]. Comorbidity between pain and mental illness is often seen in clinical practice and is ...
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Does pain lead to mental illness or is it the other way around?
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Do kids once in chronic pain break free?
After the long and winding road towards diagnosis, many children with chronic pain conditions improve with standard outpatient therapy approaches such as a combination of physical and cognitive behavioral therapies with or without medications. However ...
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Vision and pain – evidence of safety or evidence of danger?
Pain emerges when we conclude the body is under threat and in need of protection.[1] This conclusion depends on the integration of the predicted state of the body with information from multiple sources, and has ...
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Can video games help older people with back pain?
Low back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide [1] and up to 90% of people will experience low back pain at some point in their life [2]. The small percentage of people who ...
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How much evidence is enough to retract a paper?
A paper published in May this year by Coulter et al. (2018) was followed by two letters to the editor (Gibson et al. 2018, O’Keeffe, et al. 2018). The original paper was a systematic review ...