» Psychometric evaluation of the Optimal Screening for Prediction of Referral and Outcome Yellow Flag (OSPRO-YF) tool: factor structure, reliability, and validity
18/09/19 00:00 from The Journal of Pain
Psychological characteristics consistently predict clinical outcomes for musculoskeletal pain conditions.1,3,4,24,25,36,47,55 National pain management initiatives15,57 and clinical practice guidelines11,14,37,43 recommend clinicians rout...

» Linking non-restorative sleep and activity interference through pain catastrophizing and pain severity: An intra-day process model among individuals with fibromyalgia
14/09/19 00:00 from The Journal of Pain
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic widespread musculoskeletal pain condition that predominantly affects women and interferes with individuals’ daily functioning.58,80 Repeated activity interference can substantially limit one's successful ad...

» Preferred self-administered questionnaires to assess depression, anxiety and somatization in people with musculoskeletal pain – A modified Delphi study
02/09/19 00:00 from The Journal of Pain
Low back pain and neck pain are the leading causes of disability.14 Major depressive and anxiety disorders are the third and ninth leading causes of disability.14 Moreover, spinal pain, depression and anxiety often coexist: 15-45% of peo...

» Quantitative sensory testing and predicting outcomes for musculoskeletal pain, disability, and negative affect: a systematic review and meta-analysis
01/09/19 05:00 from PAIN - Current Issue
Hypersensitivity due to central pain mechanisms can influence recovery and lead to worse clinical outcomes, but the ability of quantitative sensory testing (QST), an index of sensitisation, to predict outcomes in chronic musculoskeletal ...

» Motor adaptation varies between individuals in the transition to sustained pain
01/09/19 05:00 from PAIN - Current Issue
Musculoskeletal pain is associated with altered motor control that, despite short-term benefit, is hypothesised to have long-term consequences, contributing to the development of chronic pain. However, data on how motor control is altere...

» Comparison of brain structure between pain-susceptible and asymptomatic individuals following experimental induction of low back pain
31/08/19 00:00 from The Spine Journal
Peripheral differences often do not adequately account for variation in reports of pain intensity in people with musculoskeletal pain.

» A novel method for prediction of postoperative global sagittal alignment based on full-body musculoskeletal modeling and posture optimization
28/08/19 14:31 from ScienceDirect Publication: Journal of Biomechanics
Publication date: Available online 27 August 2019 Source: Journal of Biomechanics Author(s): Dominika Ignasiak Abstract Associations between spinal sagittal balance with pain and disability are well documented. Reciprocal changes after s...

» 142. Impact of preoperative chronic opioid therapy on long-term outcomes, reoperations, complications and resource utilization after lumbar arthrodesis
23/08/19 02:14 from The Spine Journal
Opioid therapy is effective in controlling acute postoperative pain. However, the potential for abuse has been a national concern. Recent clinical trials have questioned the benefit-risk ratio of chronic opioid therapy (COT) in musculosk...

» Proposal for Improvement of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale for the Assessment of Emotional Distress in Patients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: a Bifactor and Item Response Theory Analysis
14/08/19 00:00 from The Journal of Pain
The link between chronic pain and mental health has long been recognized.22,29 Their association can be acknowledged at a biological, psychological and social level, as they are thought to share common neural mechanisms,36,70 interact in...