BACKGROUND To explore how chronic musculoskeletal pain is managed in multidisciplinary pain clinics for patients for whom physical interventions are inappropriate or ineffective. METHODS A qualitative study was undertaken using semi-structured interviews with twenty five members of the pain management team drawn from seven pain clinics and one pain management unit located across the UK. RES...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to provide a comprehensive profile of a representative sample of patients with acute low back pain drawn from the primary care setting. A secondary aim was to determine whether patient characteristics are associated with pain intensity or disability at the initial consultation. METHODS A total of 1172 consecutive patients with acute low back pain presenting to clin...

The present study examined the long-term pain and disability outcomes of a pediatric chronic pain clinic cohort and evaluated whether these outcomes differed by age and sex. Patients were interviewed a mean of 3 years after their last appointment at a pediatric pain clinic. The cohort comprised 95 females and 48 males, aged 5-23 years when interviewed. Of the cohort, 62.2% (67 females, 22 males...

How much would you spend to keep yourself pain free, when afflicted with chronic intractable pain or terminal cancer-related pain and you happen to be a resident of a developing country with a low per capita income? Maybe an amount equivalent to US $5000 or $10 000? This sounds ridiculous! But is it? In other words what value would you put on your quality of life? How much funding would be requ...

BACKGROUND Chronic pain is very common worldwide and can lead to disability, depression and absence from work. Catastrophizing has been proven to affect individuals' belief systems and coping strategies, and it is an essential risk factor for chronic pain. The pain catastrophizing scale (PCS) has been developed for the assessment of catastrophizing. However, a Chinese version of this scale is n...

Abstract Background Impairments in sleep health are associated with the development or worsening of chronic pain. Further, pain can cause disruption by impacting onset, maintenance, quality, and causing daytime somnolence. However, association between disturbances young adult population is unclear. Aim We describe our initial experience establishing running a clinic for managing adults. also pr...

OBJECTIVES The study objectives were to evaluate outcomes in patients who have received dry needling treatments and to identify predictors of pain and disability. DESIGN The study was a prospective cohort follow-up design. SETTING The study was conducted at the Pain Clinic at Pingtung Christian Hospital, Taiwan. SUBJECTS Ninety-two (92) patients sick-listed for 3 months or longer for myof...

OBJECTIVES To describe the prevalence of hysterectomy for women aged 18-45 seeking treatment at a chronic pain clinic, to describe patient characteristics (pain intensity, age, smoking status, hormone replacement status, and psychosocial factors) based on opioid and hysterectomy status, and to determine whether hysterectomy status predicted receipt of opioid prescription. DESIGN Retrospective...

OBJECTIVE To show the practice of a pain clinic in Saudi Arabia, to estimate the prevalence of various types of chronic pain managed in there and to find the relationship of patient's age and gender to type of pain. METHODS A retrospective study was carried out over a period of 5 years (January 2000 - December 2004) at a teaching hospital in Jeddah. A total of 1686 patient's data was reviewed...