INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen “The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.”—Sir William Osler BACKGROUND Print Section Listen Henry Beecher’s classic 1955 study…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Disability and chronic pain commonly co-occur, particularly in the case of diagnoses with controversial etiologies. When disability impacts work, the contributory factors become even more complex,…
INTERDISCIPLINARY CHRONIC PAIN REHABILITATION Print Section Listen Patients with chronic pain suffer dramatic reductions in physical, psychological, and social well-being with health-related quality of life rated lower than those with…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Why does one patient develop chronic pain and face disability, while another—with seemingly the same injuries, extent of tissue damage, and quality of medical care—recovers and…
ABSTRACT Print Section Listen Opioid analgesics provide effective treatment for noncancer pain, but many physicians have concerns about adverse effects, tolerance, and addiction. Misuse of opioids is prominent in patients…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen When the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) arrived at a definition of pain that included the “emotional experience,” as well as the “unpleasant…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen More than 45 years ago, Shealy and colleagues introduced the concept of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) as a means of electrically inhibiting pain that was consonant…
NOTE Print Section Listen *Thanks to Christine Cahalan and George Mensing for their extraordinary valuable assistance with the literature review and manuscript preparation. We also gratefully acknowledge the contribution of…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Spinal disease is a very common cause of neck and back pain. Patients presenting with spinal pain form a very important group at the Pain Clinic….
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Chronic pain is an extremely complex and debilitating problem that presents itself in many ways in modern-day society. While there is clearly a biological substrate to…
