Papers of the Week

Poor quality sleep is a common complaint among people with chronic pain. The co-occurrence of poor sleep quality and chronic pain often comes with increased pain intensity, more disability, and a higher cost of healthcare. Poor sleep has been suggested to affect measures of peripheral and central pain mechanisms. To date, sleep provocations are the only models proven to affect measures of central pain mechanisms in healthy subjects. However, there are limited studies investigating the effect of several nights of sleep disruption on measures of central pain mechanisms.