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Peter B. Polatin
Researcher at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Publications - 56
Citations - 4782
Peter B. Polatin is an academic researcher from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Chronic pain & Population. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 56 publications receiving 4635 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter B. Polatin include Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan & University of Texas at Dallas.
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Chronic pain and psychopathology: research findings and theoretical considerations.
TL;DR: Although no single theoretical model can fully explain the causal relationship between chronic pain and psychopathology, a diathesis-stress model is emerging as the dominant overarching theoretical perspective.
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Psychiatric illness and chronic low-back pain: The mind and the spine-which goes first?
TL;DR: These are the first results to indicate that certain psychiatric syndromes appear to precede chronic iow-back pain (substance abuse and anxiety disorders), whereas others (specifically, major depression) develop either before or after the onset of chronic low- back pain.
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The dominant role of psychosocial risk factors in the development of chronic low back pain disability
TL;DR: Results revealed that major psychopathology, such as depression and substance abuse, did not precede or cause the development of chronic pain disability, and the presence of a robust “psychosocial disability factor” that is associated with those injured workers who are likely to develop chronic low back pain disability problems.
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Treatment- and cost-effectiveness of early intervention for acute low-back pain patients: a one-year prospective study.
Robert J. Gatchel,Peter B. Polatin,Carl E. Noe,Margaret A. Gardea,Carla Pulliam,Judy Thompson +5 more
TL;DR: Results clearly indicated that the high-risk subjects who received early intervention displayed statistically significant fewer indices of chronic pain disability on a wide range of work, healthcare utilization, medication use, and self-report pain variables, relative to the high risk subjects who do not receive such early intervention.
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Predicting outcome of chronic back pain using clinical predictors of psychopathology: a prospective analysis.
TL;DR: The results demonstrate the presence of a psychosocial disability variable that is associated with those injured workers who are likely to develop chronic disability problems.