Effective coping strategies and adaptive behavioral training build resilience against stress-induced pathology. Both predisposed and acquired coping strategies were investigated in rats to determine their impact on stress responsiveness and emotional resilience. Male Long-Evans rats were assigned to one of the three coping groups: passive, active, or variable copers. Rats were then randomly ass...

BACKGROUND The Coping with Persistent Pain, Effectiveness Research into Self-management (COPERS) trial assessed whether a group-based self-management course is effective in reducing pain-related disability in participants with chronic musculoskeletal pain. This article describes the statistical analysis plan for the COPERS trial. METHODS AND DESIGN COPERS was a pragmatic, multicentre, unmaske...

Pain magnitude and pain tolerance for arm immersion in ice water were assessed during a baseline and posttest session. Before the posttest half the subjects received (and half did not receive) an analgesia suggestion. On the basis of their written testimony, subjects were classified as having either predominantly coped (e.g., imagined events inconsistent with pain; made positive self-statements...

BACKGROUND A treatment algorithm and screening examination have been developed to guide patient management and prospectively determine potential for highly active individuals to succeed with nonoperative care after anterior cruciate ligament rupture. OBJECTIVE To prospectively characterize and classify the entire population of highly active individuals over a 10-year period and provide final ...

The present study was conducted to test the hypothesis that the increased psychological well-being and positivity effect in old age can be related to a high prevalence of repressive coping in healthy older adults. Both older (mean age 73) and younger (mean age 20) adults completed a range of indices measuring psychopathology and repressive coping. Results showed that older adults scored lower t...

In this study, the relationship between repressive and defensive coping styles and somatovisceral responses as well as emotion self-reports were investigated in 2 situational contexts conceived to induce fear and anger. Anxiety (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory; L. Laux, P. Glanzmann, P. Schaffner, and C. D. Spielberger, 1981) x Defensiveness (Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale; D. P. Crowne...

BACKGROUND Chronic ankle instability has been associated with altered joint kinematics at the ankle, knee and hip. However, no studies have investigated possible kinematic deviations at more distal segments of the foot. The purpose of this study was to evaluate if subjects with ankle instability and copers show altered foot and ankle kinematics and altered kinetics during a landing task when co...

TO THE EDITOR: We would like to point out inaccuracies in the interpretation and application of our work in a recent article by Melynk et al. (2007) that reported on changes in stretch reflex excitability after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture. Subjects were divided into two groups (“coper” and “noncoper”) based on responses to four questions about the subjective symptom of knee giving ...

Introduction: After anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, potential copers (PCs) and non-copers (NCs) are differentiated based on functional ability and knee stability. Due to frequent episodes of the knee giving way, rehabilitation specialists recommend NCs undergo ACL reconstruction (ACLR) prior to the resumption of sport activities. Some PCs opt to have non-operative management while othe...