OBJECTIVE Explore the relationships between the four stages of pain processing and attention in chronic pain sufferers. DESIGN A cross-sectional, retrospective study of 736 subjects participating in an outpatient university-based tertiary care pain treatment program. METHODS Self-report measures of pain, pain-related unpleasantness, and suffering (Pain Experience Visual Analog Scales) in co...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to examine relations among parental responses, adolescent pain coping, and pain behaviors in adolescents with chronic pain. METHODS This study included 217 adolescents (12-17 years) evaluated at a multidisciplinary pain clinic and their parents. Adolescents completed measures assessing their pain, pain coping responses, functional disability, and somatic s...

In chronic pain rehabilitation, physiotherapists adapt physical activity to patients’ performance based on their expression of protective behavior, gradually exposing them feared but harmless and essential everyday activities. As rehabilitation moves outside the clinic, technology should automatically detect such behavior provide similar support. Previous works have shown feasibility automatic ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the analgesic effectiveness of intra-articular botulinum toxin Type B (BoNT/B) in a murine model of chronic degenerative arthritis pain. METHODS AND MATERIALS Chronic arthritis was produced in adult C57Bl6 mice by intra-articular injection of Type IV collagenase into the left knee. Following induction of arthritis, the treatment group received intra-articular BoNT/B. Art...