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Many countries have high opioid use among people with chronic non-cancer pain. Knowledge about effective interventions that could be implemented at scale is limited. We designed a national intervention that […]
Learn More >In a recently published randomized controlled trial, two-thirds of patients receiving a novel psychological treatment, pain reprocessing therapy (PRT), reported elimination or near-elimination of chronic back pain. Mechanisms of PRT […]
Learn More >Affective disruptions, particularly deficits in positive affect, are characteristic of fibromyalgia (FM). The Dynamic Model of Affect (DMA) provides some explanation of affective disruptions in FM, suggesting that the inverse […]
Learn More >The purpose of this study was to describe the diagnostic performance of the Neuropathic Pain Subscale of McGill [NP-MPQ (SF-2)] and the Self-Administered Leeds Assessment of Neuropathic Symptoms and Signs […]
Learn More >There is increasing evidence that virtual reality (VR) is effective in the reduction of labour pain. The implementation of alternative methods like VR to reduce labour pain can contribute to […]
Learn More >Clinical arthritis is the hallmark of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), yet the natural trajectory in which arthritis develops at tissue-level remains elusive. We hypothesized that subclinical inflammation in different joint tissues […]
Learn More >The prevalence of chronic pain is high in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), increasing the risk for opioid use. The objective of this study was to assess disease-modifying antirheumatic drug […]
Learn More >Two derivatives of the numeric rating scale (NRS) and visual analog scale (VAS), namely patient-reported percentage pain reduction (PRPPR) and calculated percentage pain reduction (CPPR), are commonly used when evaluating […]
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