Pain is among the most common reasons patients seek medical attention, and the care of
patients with pain is a significant problem in the United States. Acute pain (mild-to-moderate …

Chronic pain syndromes are often treatment refractory and pose an enormous burden of
suffering for the individual. Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) is generally defined as noncyclic pain …

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and pain after traumatic events such as
motor vehicle collision (MVC) have been proposed to be mutually promoting. We performed …

Background: A number of theories have proposed possible mechanisms that may explain
the high rates of comorbidity between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and persistent …

The fear avoidance model (FAM) has been proposed to explain the development of chronic
disability in a variety of conditions including whiplash-associated disorders (WADs). The …

The lack of efficacy of rehabilitative approaches to the management of chronic whiplash-
associated disorders (WAD) may be in part due to heterogeneity of the clinical presentation …

Each year millions of Americans present to the emergency department (ED) for care after a
motor vehicle collision (MVC); the majority (. 90%) are discharged to home after evaluation …

Introduction Correctly identifying chronic pain patients with posttraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) is important because the comorbidity of a chronic pain condition and PTSD is found …

Objectives Recent models of the relationship between posttraumatic stress and whiplash
pain suggest that psychological stress relating to a motor vehicle crash may influence pain …

African Americans are disproportionately exposed to adversity across the lifespan, which
includes both stressful and traumatic events. Adversity, in turn, is associated with alterations …