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PainSolve Paper of the Month
April 2019
PainSolve Editorial Team
The effect of implicit theories of pain on pain and disability in people with chronic low back pain
Summers SM, et al. Musculoskeletal Science and Practice. 2019;40:65–71
In this paper Summers et al analysed how chronic low back pain (CLBP) patients’ lives were affected by how malleable they perceived their pain to be. They asked 102 CLBP patients to complete the Implicit Theory of Pain Scale survey, a measure of how patients perceive their pain, and then compared these results to each patient’s burden of pain scores.
The group found that CLBP patients who held a malleable or ‘incremental’ outlook on pain have a lower pain burden, compared to those with the less malleable ‘entity’ outlook. These findings regarding the implicit theories of pain, which are thought to be important socio-cognitive mechanisms, are convergent with previous findings. This study leads on to the question of: how will the relationship between implicit theories of pain and pain burden be impacted by treatment interventions?
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Other Paper of the Month Submissions:
Lack of Analgesic Effects of Transcranial Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Stimulation in Neuropathic Pain Patients: A Randomized Double-Blind Crossover Trial
Geraets CNW, et al. Neurosci Lett. 2019;S0304-3940(19)30069-2
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A phase III wait-listed randomized controlled trial of novel targeted interprofessional clinical education intervention to improve cancer patients’ reported pain outcomes (The Cancer Pain Assessment (CPAS) Trial): study protocol
Philips JL, et al. Trials. 2019;20:62
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Strategy-dependent modulation of cortical pain circuits for the attenuation of pain
Schulz et al. Cortex. 2019;113:255–266
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Quality of Patient Education Materials on Safe Opioid Management in the Acute Perioperative Period: What Do Patients Find Online?
Kumar, et al. Pain Medicine. 2019;pny296
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