Showing papers in "European Journal of Pain in 2012"

TL;DR: It has been suggested that health care professional attitudes and beliefs may negatively influence the beliefs of patients with low back pain, but this has not been systematically reviewed.

TL;DR: An easily applicable risk index for the detection of high‐risk patients that takes into account the multifactorial aetiology of CPSP is developed and suggests that several easily assessable preoperative and perioperative patient characteristics can predict a patient's risk of developing CPSP.

TL;DR: These experiments show that measurement of burrowing is a simple, objective assay of innate rodent behaviour affected by pain that is ethologically relevant to the rat, does not rely wholly on evoking a reflex and can dissociate a selective analgesic dose of gabapentin from one inducing motor impairment in the same animal.

TL;DR: Chronic pain constitutes a substantial socio‐economic challenge but little is known about its actual cost, so it is important to know how much it costs to treat.

TL;DR: In conclusion, individuals who considered themselves more masculine and less sensitive to pain than the typical man showed higher pain thresholds and tolerances.

TL;DR: Sleep of good quantity and quality is considered a biologically important resource necessary to maintain homeostasis of pain‐regulatory processes and to assess the role of chronic sleep disturbances in pain processing in subjects with primary insomnia.

TL;DR: The aim of this prospective study was to determine the incidence and intensity of these different types of post‐stroke pain.

TL;DR: There is good evidence from studies conducted in a single‐centre research setting for the efficacy of graded motor imagery treatment, a complex physiotherapy intervention, to reduce pain in long‐standing complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS).

TL;DR: There was a clear gradient between adherence to specific self‐management strategies and reductions in pain, disability and depressive symptoms and adherence to the self‐ management strategies was predictive of better outcomes even after controlling for the moderating effects of initial catastrophising, fear‐avoidance and pain self‐efficacy beliefs.

TL;DR: The aim of this study was to test the hypotheses that (1) body perception disturbance is positively related to pain and (2) decreased tactile acuity is related to increased body Perception disturbance.

TL;DR: Theta burst stimulation (TBS), a novel rTMS paradigm, is thought to produce greater changes in M1 excitability than ‘conventional’ protocols, and is used to prime a subsequent session of 10 Hz‐rTMS.

TL;DR: The present data show an involvement of the DLPFC in the processing of pain and WM, suggesting that the analgesic effects of cortical stimulation are not associated with cognitive processing.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated psychological risk factors for chronic post-surgical pain following inguinal hernia surgery, including anxiety, depression, fear avoidance, activity avoidance, catastrophizing, worry about the operation, activity expectations, perceived pain control and optimism.

TL;DR: The data corroborate the presence of substantial cognitive impairment in fibromyalgia syndrome and confirms previous research showing aberrances in the interaction between blood pressure and central nervous function in the affected patients.

TL;DR: To study the associations of sociodemographic factors, working conditions, lifestyle and previous pain in the spine with new onset chronic neck pain, data are collected on patients with and without prior history of neck pain.

TL;DR: Five risk factors were identified: female sex, higher age, family history of pain, depressed mode and pain sites at baseline, and the impact of these factors is unclear as only a few studies were recovered.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that macrophage inflammatory protein‐1 β (MIP‐1β) participates in neuropathic pain and may play a pivotal role in neuroinflammation due to the cytokine‐chemokine network.

TL;DR: The objective was to evaluate the efficacy of transcutaneous electrical neurostimulation (TENS) in patients with chronic low back pain (LBP) and to establish a protocol for safe and effective administration.

TL;DR: This study supports the use of chronic pain as a phenotype in genetic studies, with adequate correction for confounders to specifically identify genetic risk factors for chronic pain.

TL;DR: Adequacy of pain management is a process indicator of health care quality with consequences for patient outcomes and satisfaction.

TL;DR: This study investigated experimentally whether validation, as compared to invalidation, impacts on emotions and adherence during repeated pain tests.

TL;DR: It is suggested that EA reduces inflammatory pain and proinflammatory cytokines in inflamed skin tissues through activation of CB2Rs.

TL;DR: In patients suffering from CLBP, an intervention that combines spouse‐assisted coping skills training with a multidisciplinary pain management programme can improve fear of movement and rumination about low back pain.

TL;DR: The aim of this study was to examine the effects of validation on patient satisfaction, pain and affect in patients with benign (back) pain.

TL;DR: This work proposes a central mechanism for pain control in which the amygdala plays a critical role by switching on and off chronic pain, and presents an integrative (patho)physiological model for the way disturbed CRF receptor signalling in the amygdala could initiate neuropathic pain.

TL;DR: It was hypothesized that veterans with comorbid chronic pain and significant levels of PTSD symptomatology would report higher levels of maladaptive coping strategies and beliefs about pain when compared to veterans with pain alone.

TL;DR: The potential role of P2X3 receptor in a rat model of bone cancer pain is investigated and extracellular adenosine triphosphate and P2x receptors may be implicated in nociceptive signalling under cancer pain state.

TL;DR: Pain markedly activates the hypothalamic‐pituitary‐adrenal (HPA) axis and increases plasma corticosterone release interfering significantly with nociceptive behaviour as well as the mechanism of action of analgesic drugs.

TL;DR: Results show that endocannabinoids and their CB1 receptor contribute at the LVL‐PAG to the antinociceptive effects of metamizol, and possibly other non‐opioid analgesics; and participate in the PAG‐derived activation of RVM descending antinOCiceptive influences.

TL;DR: E efficacy in emotion regulation was related to quality of life and reduced negative affect even after statistically controlling for effects of other measures of adjustment, pain coping efficacy, and pain coping, and features of emotion regulation did not improve the prediction model for pain‐related disability.