Managing Chronic Pain - Articles
Attention management for chronic pain
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Bronwyn T.
Deliberately using imagery, attention diversion and mindfulness to cope with pain is not something new. It’s great though, to find that it has some very positive results when studied in a formal clinical research setting.Elomaa, Williams and Kalso use a fairly straightforward research design to examine the effects, in a clinical population, ...
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When to start self management for chronic pain
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Bronwyn T.
There’s no doubt that early self management for chronic pain is a good thing – but in our facility, we’ve always had a rather mixed feeling about introducing self management while people are still receiving medical treatment for their pain. Our experience has been that few patients are really committed to learning how to modify t ...
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What is self management in chronic pain?
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Bronwyn T.
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Self management. It’s term we use very often in pain management, but do we really agree about what we’re talking about?Maybe self management is different things to different people, maybe even different things to different people at different times! But if we don’t talk about what we’re aiming for, especially if we’re ...
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Chronic Pain Assessment and Management Tool for Clinicians
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Steve Levitt
The Chronic Pain Battery™What is it? A computer scored, paper and pencil, multi-dimensional assessment and management tool for use by clinicians who evaluate and treat patients with chronic or recurrent non-malignant pain. Who uses it? The CPB was developed for physicians, dentists, psychologists, and specialists in chronic pain evaluati ...
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Hypnosis and Chronic Pain
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Dr. Shaheen Lakhan
Chronic pain is a widespread challenge, affecting as many as 50 million Americans, and lacks effective treatment options. The American College of Rheumatology defines chronic pain as pain occurring at least 4 days per week for at least 3 months. If there is pain at 11 or more of the 18 defined trigger points, the condition is defined as fibromyalgi ...
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Chronic Pain in Elderly Patients
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Dr. Romeo V.
In the November 2007 issue of the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, an article presents the result of a study examining chronic pain in depressed geriatric inpatients. By examining the medical charts of patients who were admitted to a geriatric psychiatric unit over a two year period, 148 patients with a depressive disorder were ident ...
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Resilience and chronic pain
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Bronwyn T.
When you start to work in the field of chronic pain management, it doesn’t take long before your view of the prevalence, and severity, of chronic pain becomes somewhat skewed. Of all the people who have chronic pain, only a small number actually ask for treatment. This could be for many reasons - difficulty accessing treatment because of co ...
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Acceptance in chronic pain
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Bronwyn T.
It’s a truism that no-one really wants to have pain (and if they do, we probably need to ‘talk’!). Accepting pain may be equated with ‘giving up hope’ or ‘giving in’ – perhaps acceptance is thought to be about resignation rather than acknowledgement. In any event, very few of the people I work with ...
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Major Depression & Chronic Pain
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Kate McLaughlin.
More than seventy-five percent of people diagnosed with chronic depression also have recurring or chronic pain Conversely, thirty to sixty percent of people with chronic pain report symptoms of depression, according to the Archives of General Psychiatry.To better understand the connections between pain and depression, Irina Strigo of the Universit ...
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