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Comorbidity of Chronic Pain and Mental Health Disorders: The Biopsychosocial Perspective
(American Psychological Association, 2009-11-20)
We are entering an exciting period in mental and physical health research, resulting from a paradigm shift away from an outdated biomedical reductionism approach, to a more comprehensive biopsychosocial model, which ...
Methods for Monitoring Medication Use in Chronic Patients
(Remedica Medical Education and Publishing, 2008)
In this article, the best methods for assessing chronic pain patients who are potentially at risk of misuse or abuse of painreduction
medications are highlighted. The author recommends that comprehensive biopsychosocial ...
The Comprehensive Muscular Activity Profile (CMAP): Its High Sensitivity, Specificity and Overall Classification Rate for Detecting Submaximal Effort on Functional Capacity Testing
(Springer Verlag, 2009-03)
A traditional problem faced by clinicians attempting to objectively measure musculoskeletal disorders such as low back pain, where there is often primarily soft tissue involvement, is that psychosocial factors (e.g., ...
Musculoskeletal Disorders: Primary and Secondary Interventions
(Elsevier, 2004-02)
In the United States alone, the annual cost associated with the diagnosis and care of musculoskeletal trauma amounts to tens of billions of dollars [Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders: Function, Outcomes and Evidence. ...
Psychosocial Factors That Can Influence the Self-Assessment of Function
(Springer Netherlands, 2004-09)
What has plagued the evaluation process in this area has been the level of agreement in the wide variation in the measures used to document a construct such as pain, as well as changes in that construct as reflected in the ...
Treatment- and Cost-Effectiveness of Early Intervention for Acute Low Back Patients: A One-Year Prospective Study
(Springer Science & Business Media B.V., 2003-03)
In an attempt to prevent acute low back pain from becoming a chronic disability problem, an earlier study developed a statistical algorithm which accurately identified those acute low back pain patients who were at high ...
Evidence-Based Review of the Efficacy of Functional Restoration for the Management of Chronic Low Back Pain
(Elsevier, 2008-01)
There are now almost 20 years of evidence-based clinical outcome data, from the United States as well as from other countries around the world, demonstrating the therapeutic effectiveness of functional restoration, a ...
Emotional Distress and Medication Use in Two Acute Pain Populations: Jaw and Low Back
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2006-12)
The present study was undertaken to compare emotional distress and functional ability between two common acute pain populations - - jaw pain (JAW; n = 135) and low back pain (LB; n=71). Patient groups were evaluated and ...
Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
(PPM Communications, Inc., 2004)
Back pain is a widespread public health problem, affecting a staggering 80% of Americans at some point in their lives. Each year, an estimated one out of every 14 people will seek medical care for back or neck pain, amounting ...
Failure to Complete a Functional Restoration Program for Chronic Musculoskeletal Disorders: A Prospective One-Year Outcome Study
(The American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2005-08)
This large prospective study determined that noncompleters of interdisciplinary tertiary rehabilitation for CDOMDs had comparatively poor socioeconomic outcomes in the year after discharge from treatment, especially on ...