The biopsychosocial model of pain dominates the scientific community's understanding of
chronic pain. Indeed, the biopsychosocial approach describes pain and disability as a …

The psychosocial and functional consequences of chronic pain disorders have been well
documented as having significant effects on the experience of pain, presentation to health …

An emerging technique in chronic pain research is MRI, which has led to the understanding
that chronic pain patients display brain structure and function alterations. Many of these …

The Brief Pain Inventory (BPI; Cleeland and associates) has been used primarily to assess
patients with cancer-related pain. Although it has been validated in many languages and is …

Most patients who undergo surgery recover uneventfully and resume their normal daily
activities within weeks. Nevertheless, chronic postsurgical pain develops in an alarming …

Pain catastrophizing, or characterizations of pain as awful, horrible and unbearable, is
increasingly being recognized as an important factor in the experience of pain. The purpose …

Purpose: To review the existing literature on the social and psychological challenges faced
by people with an amputation and to provide a detailed analysis of the literature examining …

Jensen MP, Moore MR, Bockow TB, Ehde DM, Engel JM. Psychosocial factors and
adjustment to chronic pain in persons with physical disabilities: a systematic review …

The Brief Pain Inventory short form (BPI-sf) is a validated, widely used, self-administered
questionnaire developed to assess the severity of pain and the impact of pain on daily …

Methods: This review aims to provide an interdisciplinary overview of recent evidence-based
and clinical knowledge. Results: The scientific evidence for best practice is weak and …