Anxiety sensitivity in the prediction of pain-related fear and anxiety in a heterogeneous chronic pain population

Veterans seeking treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder: What about comorbid chronic pain?

“…Our naturalistically collected data cannot determine the mechanisms underlying the pathology associated with this comorbidity, but these data do suggest that this is an important area of continued study. Basic empirical investigations of each of these dimensions have provided some support for these concepts [71][72][73][74] and continued investigation may help elucidate the mechanisms that maintain this comorbidity.…”

Highly anxious dental patients report more pain during dental injections

“…Also anxi ety sensitivity is increasingly related to pain-related fears and anxiety. [31][32][33] Fear of pain itself is a highly relevant concept in pain research. 34 In fact, it led one of the present authors to develop the Fear of Dental Pain questionnaire (FDP).…”

Myofascial pain syndrome associated with trigger points: A literature review. (I): Epidemiology, clinical treatment and etiopathogeny

“…Using the first two techniques, an assessment is made of the surface musculature, whilst the third is used to evaluate the deeper layers (3). It is necessary to wait between 2 and 5 seconds (3,20) after applying an appropriate pressure of about 2 kg/cm² (6), in order to reproduce the referred pain. The precision and force applied during an examination will influence the induction of this referred pain and, therefore, the diagnosis.…”

“…The precision and force applied during an examination will influence the induction of this referred pain and, therefore, the diagnosis. The literature reports poor concurrence between examiners in the location of TrPs using manual palpation (3,5,7,20). Cummings et al (5) after an analysis of studies available in the literature, concluded that there was a 41 -50% concordance between examiners when diagnosing the presence of a TrP.…”