Nociceptive: Injury & Inflammatión; Local pain; Consistent and proporcional pain by mechanical stimuli; Reduction of pain on removal of provocative stimuli Nociplastic: Widespread pain; Pain out of proportion to injury; Fatigue; Cognitive dysfunction; Sleep dysfunction. Neuropathic: Nerve injury or CNS Injury; Positive symptoms (burning pain, dysesthesias), Negative symptoms (motor loss, ...
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1. Background Treating pain has been a part of medicine for over 5000 years, yet the management of chronic pain is a relatively new endeavor. Health care for chronic pain patients in the United States is expensive and often ineffective. In 2008, a three-part series in Pain Physician elucidated the crisis in chronic ...
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Objective: Loss of proprioception and balance disorders are commonly observed in patients with knee osteoarthritis. In this study, we aimed to investigate the effects of balance and proprioception exercises in patients with knee osteoarthritis. Design: A single-center randomized trial with three parallel arms. Setting: A tertiary health care facility in Turkey. Participants: Female patients ...
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Steven J. Linton William S. Shaw Physical Therapy, Volume 91, Issue 5, 1 May 2011, Pages 700–711. This article reviews the role of psychological factors in the development of persistent pain and disability, with a focus on how basic psychological processes have been incorporated into theoretical models that have implications ...
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Investigadores de la Universidad Rush de Chicago (Estados Unidos) aseguran que las personas con dolor lumbar crónico lo sufren de forma más aguda cuando sus parejas muestran una actitud crítica y no les ofrecen ningún tipo de apoyo, según los resultados de un trabajo publicado en la revista ‘Pain’. Una de las ...
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