Does Pain Relief Improve Pain Behavior and Mood in Chronic Pain Patients?

2003 ◽  
pp. 791-797 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine M. Sator-Katzenschlager ◽  
Andreas W. Schiesser ◽  
Sibylle A. Kozek-Langenecker ◽  
Gerhard Benetka ◽  
Gudrun Langer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Pain Relief ◽  
Pain Behavior ◽  
Chronic Pain Patients ◽  
Pain Patients

Alpha entrainment drives pain relief using visual stimulation in a sample of chronic pain patients

Neuroreport ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol Publish Ahead of Print ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Lopez-Diaz ◽  
James Henshaw ◽  
Alexander J. Casson ◽  
Christopher A. Brown ◽  
Jason R. Taylor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Pain Relief ◽  
Visual Stimulation ◽  
Chronic Pain Patients ◽  
Pain Patients

Somatic Complaints and Pain Behavior in Children of Chronic Pain Patients

1991 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Robert N. Jamison ◽  
Lynn S. Walker ◽  
Barbara Philpo ◽  
Karen A. Lindsey
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Pain Behavior ◽  
Somatic Complaints ◽  
Chronic Pain Patients ◽  
Pain Patients

scholarly journals Extended reality for chronic pain relief

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Wang ◽  
Craig Anslow ◽  
Brian Robinson ◽  
Simon McCallum
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Pain Relief ◽  
Body Movement ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Chronic Pain Patients ◽  
Pain Ratings ◽  
Subjective Pain ◽  
Initial Injury ◽  
Physical Interactions ◽  
Pain Patients

© 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Chronic pain is ongoing pain lasting for long periods of time after the initial injury or disease has healed. Chronic pain is difficult to treat and can affect the daily lives of patients. Distraction therapy is a proven way of relieving pain by redirecting the focus of patients' attention. Virtual reality is an effective platform for distraction therapy as it immerses the user visually, aurally, and even somewhat physically in a virtual world detached from reality. There is little research done on the effects that physical interactions have on pain management. This project aims to evaluate different types of extended reality (XR) interactions, including full body movement, for chronic pain patients to determine which is the best for pain relief. We are building a prototype for participants to interact both mentally and physically and measuring the reduction in subjective pain ratings at various points of the XR experience.

Placebo and Nocebo Effects in Chronic Pain Patients

2014 ◽  
Vol 222 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lene Vase ◽  
Ina Skyt ◽  
Gitte Laue Petersen ◽  
Donald D. Price
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Pain Relief ◽  
Healthy Volunteers ◽  
Experimental Pain ◽  
Clinical Treatment ◽  
Placebo Effects ◽  
Chronic Pain Patients ◽  
Nocebo Effects ◽  
Patients Experience ◽  
Pain Patients

Placebo, as well as nocebo, effects have been primarily investigated in studies with healthy volunteers exposed to acute experimental pain. Yet with regard to chronic pain patients, there is emerging evidence for significant placebo effects but not for nocebo effects. Expectations of pain relief are known to contribute to placebo effects, and lately the influence of emotional feelings has also been investigated. In this line of research, an experiential method has been applied to capture the emotional feelings that chronic pain patients experience during placebo and nocebo interventions. The findings indicate that the patients’ expectations of treatment effects are highly embedded in their emotional feelings. Hence, in order to optimize placebo factors in the clinical treatment of patients, it may be pivotal to investigate and enhance both expectancies and emotional feelings about treatments.

Illness Behavior in Children of Chronic Pain Patients

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert N. Jamison ◽  
Lynn S. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Emotional Distress ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Pain Behavior ◽  
Illness Behavior ◽  
Pain Patient ◽  
Chronic Pain Patients ◽  
Patient Families ◽  
Children's Pain ◽  
Pain Patients

Objective: Recent studies on pain behavior have pointed to a relationship between expression of illness in patients with chronic pain and reports of physical complaints in other family members. This article includes two related studies. The aim of the first study was to determine whether, among pain patient families, parents who exhibited higher levels of illness behavior and emotional distress were more likely to report that their children had frequent pain complaints. The aim of the second study was to assess whether children of patients with chronic pain were perceived by their parents to have more pain and illness behavior than children of non-pain parents. Method: In the first study, forty-two primary caregivers in families with a parent with chronic pain completed questionnaires regarding their children's pain and illness behavior. In the second study, report of somatic complaints in children of chronic pain parents was compared to complaints in fifty-five children of parents without chronic pain. Results: Results of the first study showed that frequently reported pain in the child was associated with significantly higher levels of parent disability, pain behavior and emotional distress. Results of the second study showed that children of patients with chronic pain were reported to have more frequent abdominal pain and to use more medication than children of parents without pain. Conclusions: The findings of these studies suggest that children of parents with chronic pain may be at risk for illness behavior, especially when the parents exhibit emotional reactions to their pain.

scholarly journals Modulation of the Somatosensory Evoked Potential by Attention and Spinal Cord Stimulation

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guiomar Niso ◽  
Marleen C. Tjepkema-Cloostermans ◽  
Mathieu W. P. M. Lenders ◽  
Cecile C. de Vos
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Pain Relief ◽  
Spinal Cord Stimulation ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Explorative Study ◽  
Brain Responses ◽  
Chronic Pain Patients ◽  
Electrical Pulses ◽  
Pain Patients

Introduction: Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) is a last-resort treatment for patients with intractable chronic pain in whom pharmacological and other treatments have failed. Conventional tonic SCS is accompanied by tingling sensations. More recent stimulation protocols like burst SCS are not sensed by the patient while providing similar levels of pain relief. It has been previously reported that conventional tonic SCS can attenuate sensory-discriminative processing in several brain areas, but that burst SCS might have additional effects on the medial, motivational-affective pain system. In this explorative study we assessed the influence of attention on the somatosensory evoked brain responses under conventional tonic SCS as well as burst SCS regime.Methods: Twelve chronic pain patients with an implanted SCS device had 2-weeks evaluation periods with three different SCS settings (conventional tonic SCS, burst SCS, and sham SCS). At the end of each period, an electro-encephalography (EEG) measurement was done, at which patients received transcutaneous electrical pulses at the tibial nerve to induce somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP). SEP data was acquired while patients were attending the applied pulses and while they were mind wandering. The effects of attention as well as SCS regimes on the SEP were analyzed by comparing amplitudes of early and late latencies at the vertex as well as brain activity at full cortical maps.Results: Pain relief obtained by the various SCS settings varied largely among patients. Early SEP responses were not significantly affected by attention nor SCS settings (i.e., burst, tonic, and sham). However, late SEP responses (P300) were reduced with tonic and burst SCS: conventional tonic SCS reduced P300 brain activity in the unattended condition, while burst SCS reduced P300 brain activity in both attended and unattended conditions.Conclusion: Burst spinal cord stimulation for the treatment of chronic pain seems to reduce cortical attention that is or can be directed to somatosensory stimuli to a larger extent than conventional spinal cord stimulation treatment. This is a first step in understanding why in selected chronic pain patients burst SCS is more effective than tonic SCS and how neuroimaging could assist in personalizing SCS treatment.

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