Tag: Prognosis
Some More Great Questions to Ask Your Patients
As a follow up to my last post I thought I might suggest another couple of questions that are worth asking your patients. Once again, these are not questions that I have devised myself, but rather have been suggested by me to other clinicians. I find them exceptionally useful in my clinical practice. 1. Do […]
Cold Hyperalgesia Testing
I have often read in the literature the view that Cold Hyperalgesia is suggestive of more “severe” pain states and hence poorer prognosis. For example: Van Oosterwijck et al (2013) reported in their Systematic literature review on the evidence for central sensitisation in chronic whiplash that: The outcome of the processes involved in central sensitization […]
Sleep and Chronic Pain – Research Update – March 2014
The association between poor sleep and chronic pain is an interesting subject. For those interested, I previously posted on Sleep and Chronic Pain back in September 2012. I had the following fantastic article forwarded to me by a colleague, and I thought it apt to provide a research update on this topic. Finan PH, Goodin BR, Smith MT. The association […]
Treatment of Chronic Pain?
Hopefully anyone seeing the title of this post will not be clicking on it thinking that I have the answers to chronic pain……please note the maze in the cover image and the question mark at the end of the title! Lets be honest, the outcomes that chronic pain patients are achieving, via all forms of […]
The Role of Psychosocial Aspects and Beliefs in Chronic Pain
The following presents some of the key points from my readings into the role of psychosocial aspects and beliefs in chronic pain. It is interesting to see that psychosocial aspects appear to be far more important in predicting recovery (or non-recovery) from back pain than other “biomedical” measures. I have previously posted regarding co-morbidities and […]
Co-morbidities in Chronic Pain
Recently I have been reviewing the literature in relation to co-morbidities in chronic pain. The following list is taken from review of Ramond et al (2011), Von Korff et al (2005) and Coronado et al (2011). These are factors potentially related to poor prognosis and/or persistent pain states (I am sure there are more but […]
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