Cut-off points for mild, moderate, and severe pain on the numeric rating scale for pain in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain: variability and influence of sex and …

AM Boonstra, RE Stewart, AJA Köke… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Objectives: The 0–10 Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) is often used in pain management. The
aims of our study were to determine the cut-off points for mild, moderate, and severe pain in …

[HTML][HTML] Personal and societal impact of low back pain: the Groningen spine cohort

AL Dutmer, HRS Preuper, R Soer, S Brouwer… - Spine, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. Cross-sectional study. Objective. The aim of this study was to study the
personal and societal impact of low back pain (LBP) in patients admitted to a …

Acupuncture vs. pharmacological prophylaxis of migraine: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials

CM Giovanardi, M Cinquini, M Aguggia, G Allais… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Migraine is a chronic paroxymal neurological disorder characterized by attacks
of moderate to severe headache and reversible neurological and systemic symptoms …

[HTML][HTML] Exercise, especially combined stretching and strengthening exercise, reduces myofascial pain: a systematic review

JBM Diz, JRLM de Souza, AAO Leopoldino… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Question: Among people with myofascial pain, does exercise reduce the intensity of the pain
and disability? Design: Systematic review of randomised and quasi-randomised controlled …

Blended-learning pain neuroscience education for people with chronic spinal pain: randomized controlled multicenter trial

A Malfliet, J Kregel, M Meeus, N Roussel… - Physical …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Available evidence favors the use of pain neuroscience education (PNE) in
patients with chronic pain. However, PNE trials are often limited to small sample sizes and …

Convergent validity of the Dutch central sensitization inventory: associations with psychophysical pain measures, quality of life, disability, and pain cognitions in …

J Kregel, C Schumacher, M Dolphens, A Malfliet… - Pain …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Symptoms of central sensitization (CS) have been described in patients with
chronic spinal pain (CSP). Although a gold standard to diagnose CS is lacking …

Identification of preoperative predictors for acute postsurgical pain and for pain at three months after surgery: a prospective observational study

RLM van Boekel, EM Bronkhorst, L Vloet… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Identifying patients at risk is the start of adequate perioperative pain management. We
aimed to identify preoperative predictors for acute postsurgical pain (APSP) and for pain at 3 …

Characterizing the Clinical Features and Atrophy Patterns of MAPT-Related Frontotemporal Dementia With Disease Progression Modeling

AL Young, M Bocchetta, LL Russell, RS Convery… - Neurology, 2021 - AAN Enterprises
Background and Objective Mutations in the MAPT gene cause frontotemporal dementia
(FTD). Most previous studies investigating the neuroanatomical signature of MAPT …

Patients with chronic spinal pain benefit from pain neuroscience education regardless the self-reported signs of central sensitization: secondary analysis of a …

A Malfliet, J Kregel, M Meeus, L Danneels, B Cagnie… - PM&R, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Pain neuroscience education is effective in chronic pain management. Central
sensitization (ie, generalized hypersensitivity) is often explained as the underlying …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction models for treatment success after an interdisciplinary multimodal pain treatment program

MG Mertens, SMJ van Kuijk, LWME Beckers… - Seminars in Arthritis and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) poses a widespread health and socioeconomic
problem, being the most prevalent chronic pain condition. Interdisciplinary multimodal pain …