Pain Therapy in Childhood and Adolescent Chronic Pain
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The Basics of Treating Pain Disorders in Children and Adolescents
Asmundson GJ (2012) Do attentional biases for pain depend on threat value of pain and competing motivation toward non-pain goals? Pain 153(6):1140–1141PubMedCrossRef Balagué F, Nordin M, Dutoit G, Waldburger M…
Specifics of Pain Therapy in Children with Mental Disorders, Severe Somatic Diseases, or Psychosocial Stress Factors
Eccleston C, Malleson P (2003) Managing chronic pain in children and adolescents. We need to address the embarrassing lack of data for this common problem. BMJ 326(7404):1408–1409PubMedCrossRef Eippert F, Finsterbusch…
Diagnostics of Chronic Pain in Children and Adolescents
General criteria: pain disorder A. Pain in one or more anatomical sites is the predominant focus of the clinical presentation and is of sufficient severity to warrant clinical attention B….
Is It All Worthwhile? – Effectiveness of Intensive Interdisciplinary Pain Treatment
Study Treatment follow-up (FO) Sample description: diagnosis, age Outcome measures Statistical analysis Pain Disability School absence Emotional distress Palermo and Scher (2001) Inpatient-based intensive interdisciplinary treatment 3 weeks FO: 6…
Pain Disorder: A Biopsychosocial Disease
Fig. 2.1 The nociceptive system: nociceptors, ascending and descending spinal pathways, thalamic relay nuclei, subcortical and cortical projection areas (According to Brune et al. 2001, modified) The ascending nociceptive spinal…
Physical Therapy and Exercise: Impacts on Pain, Mood, Cognition, and Function
Fig. 11.1 The ICF model that recognizes that pain and disablement are influenced by sets of variables that include predisposing risk factors, for example, psychosocial attributes (e.g., anxieties and coping…
Pain Evaluation in Patients with Cognitive Impairment
Fig. 7.1 A classic comment in the literature Many healthcare professionals and patients themselves tend to assume that pain is a natural part of the ageing process and so there…
Phantom Pain: The Role of Maladaptive Plasticity and Emotional and Cognitive Variables
Fig. 12.1 Data on subscales of the Multidimensional Pain Inventory (MPI) for amputees suffering exclusively from phantom limb pain (PLP, N = 190), residual limb pain (RLP, N = 100), or both (PLP + RLP, N = 191)….
Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology of Nociception and Pain
Fig. 1.1 Components of attention. Physical features of the information from the environment are represented, that is, encoded, into particular patterns of neural activations. The representations with the highest signal…
