Association between anxiety, health-related quality of life and functional impairment in primary care patients with chronic pain

A closer look: Alternative pain management practices by heart failure patients with chronic pain

“…Nonetheless, nutraceutical pain treatments used by HF patients would be helpful to identify so that nurses could educate patients on safe evidence-based treatments. Additional variables related to pain, such as stress and anxiety, were not measured and might increase pain, 39,40 particularly during hospitalization. Measurement of stress and anxiety in future pain research with HF patients would be important to control for potential confounding effects.…”

Physiotherapy triage assessment of patients referred for orthopaedic consultation – Long-term follow-up of health-related quality of life, pain-related disability and sick leave

“…Persistent pain has also been found to negatively influence quality of life (Kroenke et al, 2013;Landmark, et al, 2013). Studies show that between 45% and 74% of the population reports musculoskeletal pain over the course of a year (Picavet and Schouten, 2003;Bingefors and Isacson, 2004) and that patients with musculoskeletal pain represent up to half of the consultations in primary care (Picavet and Schouten, 2003;Jordan et al, 2010;Månsson et al, 2011).…”

Chronic Pain: We Should Not Underestimate the Contribution of Neural Plasticity

“…It is indeed not surprising that chronic pain is commonly associated with depression, anxiety, reduced participation, and impaired quality of life. 2,[10][11][12] There is increasing evidence that this dysregulated response of the nociceptive system arises through persistent plasticity. The following sections of this review will examine in more depth the neural changes that have been identified in the nociceptive system following tissue damage and how these may underlie the common clinical features of chronic pain conditions.…”