Central sensitisation in chronic pain conditions: latest discoveries and their potential for precision medicine

J Nijs, SZ George, DJ Clauw… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Chronic pain is a leading cause of disability globally and associated with enormous health-
care costs. The discrepancy between the extent of tissue damage and the magnitude of …

[HTML][HTML] Pain neuroscience education for adults with chronic musculoskeletal pain: a mixed-methods systematic review and meta-analysis

JA Watson, CG Ryan, L Cooper, D Ellington, R Whittle… - The journal of pain, 2019 - Elsevier
Chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) is an urgent global public health concern. Pain
neuroscience education (PNE) is an intervention used in the management of CMP aiming to …

Interventions for the management of acute and chronic low back pain: revision 2021: clinical practice guidelines linked to the international classification of functioning …

SZ George, JM Fritz, SP Silfies, MJ Schneider… - Journal of Orthopaedic & …, 2021 - jospt.org
Low back pain (LBP) remains a musculoskeletal condition with an adverse societal impact.
Globally, LBP is highly prevalent and a leading cause of disability. This is an update to the …

[HTML][HTML] The Lancet Series call to action to reduce low value care for low back pain: an update

R Buchbinder, M Underwood, J Hartvigsen, CG Maher - Pain, 2020 - journals.lww.com
The 2018 Lancet Low Back Pain Series, comprising 3 papers written by 31 authors from
disparate disciplines and 12 different countries, raised unprecedented awareness of the …

Dosage matters: uncovering the optimal duration of pain neuroscience education to improve psychosocial variables in chronic musculoskeletal pain. A systematic …

J Salazar-Mendez, R Nunez-Cortes… - Neuroscience & …, 2023 - Elsevier
The aim was to examine the moderator effect of duration of PNE (total minutes) and changes
in psychosocial variables after treatment in people with chronic musculoskeletal pain …

[HTML][HTML] Avoiding nocebo and other undesirable effects in chiropractic, osteopathy and physiotherapy: An invitation to reflect

D Hohenschurz-Schmidt, OP Thomson… - … Science and Practice, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction While the placebo effect is increasingly recognised as a contributor to treatment
effects in clinical practice, the nocebo and other undesirable effects are less well explored …

What sixty years of research says about the effectiveness of patient education on health: a second order meta-analysis

BA Simonsmeier, M Flaig, T Simacek… - Health Psychology …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Although meta-analyses have examined the association between patient education and
health, the validity and quality of this evidence have not been comprehensively assessed …

Mechanisms behind the development of chronic low back pain and its neurodegenerative features

A Mosabbir - Life, 2022 - mdpi.com
Chronic back pain is complex and there is no guarantee that treating its potential causes will
cause the pain to go away. Therefore, rather than attempting to “cure” chronic pain, many …

Integrating motivational interviewing in pain neuroscience education for people with chronic pain: A practical guide for clinicians

J Nijs, AJ Wijma, W Willaert, E Huysmans… - Physical …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Pain neuroscience education (PNE) and motivational interviewing (MI) have been widely
implemented and tested in the field of chronic pain management, and both strategies have …

Rehabilitation for low back pain: A narrative review for managing pain and improving function in acute and chronic conditions

JV Pergolizzi Jr, JA LeQuang - Pain and therapy, 2020 - Springer
Low back pain (LBP) is prevalent and may transition into chronic LBP (cLBP) with
associated reduced quality of life, pain, and disability. Because cLBP affects a heterogenous …