… stress disorder, chronic pain, substance abuse, and depression. Early research on “opioidergic”
tone suggest that the innate properties of the endogenous opioids system coupled with …

… with psychological distress and physical discomfort in the form of opioid-… chronic pain
complaints from withdrawal pain. Withdrawal also may have the potential to increase baseline pain …

… To our knowledge, no other large follow-up study has provided data on chronic pain,
discomfort and disability after recurrent hernia surgery taking the index repair into account. …

… comfort of TENS during initiation of treatment for chronic pain in older persons, and (2) assess
the influence of age on pain control and comfort … Our review of the literature thus disclosed …

… experiencing chronic pain. Specific aims were to (a) describe the chronic pain experiences
of … coping strategies used by older people to manage chronic pain; and (c) determine if there …

… Chronic pain is a multidimensional (sensory, emotional, cognitive) experience that is best
ex… Chronic pain has major contributions from the motivational–affective and evaluative levels …

… Thus, chronic pain may be viewed as a distinct condition associated with pathological …
merely a symptom of another disorder.[Citation4] Poorly managed chronic pain is associated with …

… a particular focus on the presentation and functional outcomes of children who received
clinical care through the Chronic Pain Clinic for disabling somatoform pain disorder (n = 40). …

… pain description and emotional and psychosomatic discomfort in patients with chronic pain
… Methods used were a Visual Analogue Scale, the McGill Pain Questionnaire, a new pain, …

… This pattern of results, which was also found in a study of acute and chronic pain patients
with temporomandibular disorder (16) , indicates that higher rates of psychiatric disorders are …