The National Pain Management Strategy to Inform Chronic Pain Disorders in Veterans and Civilians
Addressing chronic pain in veterans
APS 2016
Patient Satisfaction: a Critical Factor in Chronic Pain Management
In our previous article in the National Pain Strategy (NPS) series, we gave an overview of tools and approaches established at the Stanford Pain Management Center in order to improve pain management. The Chief of the Division of Pain Medicine at Stanford University, Sean Mackey, MD, PhD, presented NPS studies conducted at the Center, during the…
The Stanford Pain Management Center: a Successful Model for Chronic Pain Care
Cross-disciplinary collaborations for chronic pain
The National Pain Strategy: a Roadmap for Effective Care and Management of Chronic Pain in America
The Oversight Committee for the NIH Health and Human Services National Pain Strategy’s agenda sets objectives for 6 main areas of pain care and management.
Big Data to Address Chronic Pain
🎥 Dr James Campbell’s team is developing safe, non-addictive and effective therapies to treat chronic pain using a big data approach, and focusing on osteoarthritis, chronic low back pain and headache.
Assessing Patient Expectations of Pain May Help Guide Treatment Decisions
Setting patient expectations of early pain relief may help influence treatment outcomes.
New Factors to Measure Pain Catastrophizing
🎥 The long-established ‘Pain Catastrophizing Scale’ takes magnification, rumination and helplessness into account. Researchers at the University of Alabama considered additional measures of negative cognition associated with pain to reach a ‘global catastrophizing measure’.
Factors Predicting Pain Intensity Level, Interference of Pain, and Perceived Disability
🎥 Psychosocial variables to help predict pain levels in patients with mixed chronic pain conditions and similar demographics and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Critical Value of Psychosocial Care in Chronic Pain Management
🎥 University of Alabama researchers use a psychosocial approach to the management of pain, by instructing patients to leverage their thoughts and feelings to improve their pain experience, and by establishing a relationship of trust between the patient and their healthcare provider.
An Insight Into Mechanisms of Action of Placebo Effects for Pain Modulation
As the research of Dr Colloca suggests, any pain treatment, in order to be effective, needs to take the psychosocial context into account.
