Background: Chronic noncancer pain (CNCP) is a major health problem, for which opioids
provide one treatment option. However, evidence is needed about side effects, efficacy, and …

Objective: To review the relation between chronic pain and psychological comorbidities, and
the influence on course and prognosis, based on epidemiologic and population studies. …

Background: Chronic pain is a prevalent and costly problem that eludes adequate treatment.
Persistent pain affects all domains of people's lives and in the absence of cure, success will …

Background: The effect of low-intensity ultrasonography on fracture healing is controversial,
and current management of fractures does not generally involve the use of ultrasound …

To establish inter-rater and test-retest reliability of use of a pressure algometer, 5 males and
5 females suffering from chronic fibromyalgia (‘fibrositis’), and a normal group of 5 males …

Objective. To establish the reliability with which tenderness could be evaluated in patients
with chronic myalgias, using dolorimetry and palpation. Methods. Three blinded examiners …

… Jon Russell, Stuart Silverman, Robert Simmb, Hugh Smythe, Eldon Tunks, Don Uslan,
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The course and prognosis of persistent pain are largely unknown. In addition, follow-up
studies of chronic pain sufferers have come from specialized pain clinics and have ignored the …

Objective: To review the epidemiologic literature concerning psychosocial mediators of
outcome in chronic pain. These factors deserve attention in the assessment and treatment of …

Most research into the causes and management of chronic pain has come from specialized
chronic pain clinics, where patients have been selected through referral. Because it is …