Psychobiology of pain suppression

Abstract. Pain suppression is based on a variety of mechanisms that are best described by a psychobiological perspective. This is also true for the type of pain suppression which results in the phenomenon “pain suppresses ...

Pain behaviors, spouse responses and somatosensory evoked potentials of chronic pain patients during acute pain tests

Abstract. Twenty chronic back pain patients and 10 matched healthy controls participated in a study that assessed pain behavior, spouse ...

Pain-related cognitions, pain complaints and somatic distress in children of chronic pain patients and children of healthy parents

Abstract. The study sought to extend earlier findings suggesting that children of chronic pain patients are at a higher risk ...

Individual versus group training in the treatment of chronic pain: Which is more efficacious?

Abstract. The main objective of the study was to investigate differences in outcome of a standardized outpatient pain management training related to individual ...

Follow-up results of an in patient behavioral pain treatment program

Abstract. The aim of this study was to investigate the short- and long-term treatment efficacy of an interdisciplinary behavioral in-patient pain treatment program. The sample consisted ...

Good postural habits and back pain - an investigation of Prochaska's transtheoretical model of behavioral change

Abstract. Using a cross-sectional design, we examined assumptions with regard to the relationship between stages of change, postural habits, ...

Coping with chronic pain - assessment of coping strategies and distress

Abstract. The study examined the reliability and validity of scales that assess coping with pain. Previous exploratory and confirmatory analyses revealed a model of 9 correlated but ...