Chronic pain: an update on burden, best practices, and new advances

SP Cohen, L Vase, WM Hooten - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Chronic pain exerts an enormous personal and economic burden, affecting more than 30%
of people worldwide according to some studies. Unlike acute pain, which carries survival …

TRP (transient receptor potential) ion channel family: Structures, biological functions and therapeutic interventions for diseases

M Zhang, Y Ma, X Ye, N Zhang, L Pan… - Signal Transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels are sensors for a variety of cellular and
environmental signals. Mammals express a total of 28 different TRP channel proteins, which …

Chronic stress, cortisol dysfunction, and pain: a psychoneuroendocrine rationale for stress management in pain rehabilitation

KE Hannibal, MD Bishop - Physical therapy, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Pain is a primary symptom driving patients to seek physical therapy, and its attenuation
commonly defines a successful outcome. A large body of evidence is dedicated to …

Effectiveness of electroacupuncture or auricular acupuncture vs usual care for chronic musculoskeletal pain among cancer survivors: the PEACE randomized clinical …

JJ Mao, KT Liou, RE Baser, T Bao, KS Panageas… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The opioid crisis creates challenges for cancer pain management. Acupuncture
confers clinical benefits for chronic nonmalignant pain, but its effectiveness in cancer …

Cross-sectional study of psychosocial and pain-related variables among patients with chronic pain during a time of social distancing imposed by the coronavirus …

V Hruschak, KM Flowers, DR Azizoddin, RN Jamison… - Pain, 2021 - journals.lww.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous impact, including on individuals with
chronic pain. The social distancing policies necessary to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2 …

Dosage matters: uncovering the optimal duration of pain neuroscience education to improve psychosocial variables in chronic musculoskeletal pain. A systematic …

J Salazar-Mendez, R Nunez-Cortes… - Neuroscience & …, 2023 - Elsevier
The aim was to examine the moderator effect of duration of PNE (total minutes) and changes
in psychosocial variables after treatment in people with chronic musculoskeletal pain …

Exercise-induced hypoalgesia: A meta-analysis of exercise dosing for the treatment of chronic pain

AM Polaski, AL Phelps, MC Kostek, KA Szucs… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Objective Increasing evidence purports exercise as a first-line therapeutic for the treatment
of nearly all forms of chronic pain. However, knowledge of efficacious dosing respective to …

Low back pain prevalence and related workplace psychosocial risk factors: a study using data from the 2010 National Health Interview Survey

H Yang, S Haldeman, ML Lu, D Baker - Journal of manipulative and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objectives The objectives of this study were to estimate prevalence of low back pain, to
investigate associations between low back pain and a set of emerging workplace risk …

Non-invasive brain stimulation for chronic pain: state of the art and future directions

HY Xiong, JJ Zheng, XQ Wang - Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
As a technique that can guide brain plasticity, non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) has the
potential to improve the treatment of chronic pain (CP) because it can interfere with ongoing …

Movement-evoked pain: transforming the way we understand and measure pain

DB Corbett, CB Simon, TM Manini, SZ George… - Pain, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Nearly 116 million Americans suffer from a persistent pain condition. 17 Persistent pain is
most commonly attributed to musculoskeletal conditions such as axial and joint pain and …