RT Book, Section
A1 Turk, Dennis C.
A1 Okifuji, Akiko
A2 Bajwa, Zahid H.
A2 Wootton, R. Joshua
A2 Warfield, Carol A.
SR Print(0)
ID 1131931367
T1 Psychological Aspects of Chronic Pain
T2 Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine, 3e
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071766838
LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1131931367
RD 2024/04/25
AB Pain  is  a  complex,  perceptual  experience,  defined  as  an  “unpleasant  sensory  and  emotional  experience  associated  with  actual  or  potential  tissue  damage,  or  described  in  terms  of  such  damage.”1  One  of  the  critical  developments  in  the  past  several  decades  in  pain  research  is  the  progress  in  our  understanding  of  the  multifactorial,  biobehavioral  mechanisms  involved  with  chronic  pain.2  Research  has  consistently  shown  the  importance  of  using  multimodal  approaches  to  treat  patients  with  chronic  pain3  because  monotherapies  appear  to  provide  less  than  optimal  relief.4  These  developments  have  pointed  to  various  psychological  factors—cognitive,  emotional,  and  behavioral—as  significant  contributors  for  pain  modulation  and  pain-related  disability.5