chronic pain

Will an app a day, keep the doctor away? A critical look at BPS based phone apps. In my opinion, these apps may not be designed to keep the doctor away, but to keep patients away from their doctors - in a "don't bother us with your imaginary health problems," kind of way. They seem to be...

A Reduction in Pain Intensity Is More Strongly Associated With Improved Physical Functioning in Frustration Tolerant Individuals: A Longitudinal Moderation Study in Chronic Pain Patients Ribera et al, Frontiers in Psycholology 2019 available for free here Abstract Objective: The onset and...

I've just been exploring my local Chronic Pain Service's website and came across a link to this video: [In the top left there is an icon which links to the playlist of the 6 videos covering the complete lecture] In it the speaker mentioned a term new to me, 'Chronic Overlapping Pain...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/opinion/sunday/pain-opioids.html I saw this in the opinions today. It's a short read and I must say it is fluff. Summary: -The author notes that opioids have proven to be ineffective and even counterproductive for treating chronic pain (okay). -From that...

Open access at https://www.dovepress.com/a-predictive-algorithm-to-identify-genes-that-discriminate-individuals-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-JPR

Open access at https://www.dovepress.com/prevalence-of-fibromyalgia-in-fourteen-korean-tertiary-care-university-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-JPR

Paywalled at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811918320718?via%3Dihub

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/debunking-the-magical-power-of-the-placebo-effect-for-chronic-pain-yet-again/

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2018/09/04/researchers-elucidate-role-of-stress-gene-in-chronic-pain/

Free full text: https://www.jmir.org/2018/8/e250/

While I may agree that unproven symptoms count as syndromes or illnesses, rather than specific diseases, the number of assumptions and false ideas in this article is appalling: Link: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/patient-zero/201805/chronic-pain-is-not-disease Firstly, brain changes...

Right, of course it can.. ;) https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/17/17276452/chronic-pain-treatment-psychology-cbt-mindfulness-evidence

Persistent pain: assessment and management https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-ng10069 Don't post here, there's a thread yet https://www.s4me.info/index.php?threads/nice-looking-for-lay-member-for-persistant-pain-guideline-committee-closing-date-22nd-november.1028/#post-17679