Chronic pain is a significant and costly problem in the United States as well as throughout
the industrialized world. Unfortunately, there have been concerns about the effectiveness of …

Research has demonstrated the importance of psychological factors in coping, quality of life,
and disability in chronic pain. Furthermore, the contributions of psychology in the …

An exciting period in mental and physical health research is beginning, resulting from a
paradigm shift from an outdated biomedical reductionism approach to a more …

Objective Numerous studies have documented a strong association between chronic pain
and psychopathology. Previous research has shown that chronic pain is most often …

Chronic pain is one of the most prevalent and costly problems in the United States today.
Traditional medical treatments for it, though, have not been consistently efficacious or cost …

Objectives: The goals of this study were to verify the reliability and safety of new methods for
evaluating trunk muscle endurance, and to compare the differences between healthy …

Study Design A randomized controlled trial, pretest-posttest design, with a 3-, 6-, and 12-
month follow-up. Objectives To investigate the efficacy of a therapeutic exercise approach in …

Study Design: An inception cohort design was used in which 421 patients were evaluated
systematically with a standard battery of psychosocial assessment tests (Structured Interview …

Study Design. Economic evaluation of the costs of low back pain (LBP) in Spain from a
societal perspective, including direct and indirect costs, based on a national representative …

Study Design. The psychometric properties and clinical use of a battery of physical
performance measures were tested on 44 patients with low back pain and 48 healthy, pain …