ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2016
Military Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain and Psychiatric Comorbidity: Is Better Pain Management the Answer?
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- An Examination of Chronic Pain Indices and the Updated Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental-Disorders-Fifth Edition.Military medicine · 2021Trial
- Scoping review of risk factors, cognitive and mental health effects, and interventions for chronic pain among military veterans.Discover mental health · 2026Review
- Outcomes of a veteran-specific pain management programme by remote technology-based delivery: An observational study.British journal of pain · 2026Article
- Patterns of shared genetic risk between chronic pain, psychopathologies, and neuroticism.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- Impact of mindfulness training and yoga on injury and pain-related impairment: a group randomized trial in basic combat training.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Psychosocial Predictors of Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Outcomes and their Contextual Determinants Among Black Individuals: A Narrative Review.The journal of pain · 2022Review
- Identifying individuals with undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder in a large United States civilian population - a machine learning approach.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- Heightened autonomic reactivity to negative affective stimuli among active duty soldiers with PTSD and opioid-treated chronic pain.Psychiatry research · 2022Article
- Opioid and Nonpharmacologic Treatments Among Soldiers With Chronic Pain and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2021Article
- Dietary Ingredients as an Alternative Approach for Mitigating Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: Evidence-Based Recommendations for Practice and Research in the Military.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2019Article
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Abstract
Chronic musculoskeletal pain, such as low back pain, often appears in the presence of psychiatric comorbidities (e.g., depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)), especially among U.S. military service members serving in the post-9/11 combat era. Although there has been much speculation about how to best address pain/trauma psychiatric symptom comorbidities, there are little available data to guide practice. The present study sought to examine how pre-treatment depression and PTSD influence outcomes in a functional restoration pain management program using secondary analysis of data from the Department of Defense-funded Functional and Orthopedic Rehabilitation Treatment (FORT) trial. Twenty-eight FORT completers were analyzed using a general linear model exploring how well depression and PTSD symptoms predict post-treatment pain (Visual Analog Scale (VAS) pain rating), disability (Oswestry Disability Index; Million Visual Analog Scale), and functional capacity (Floor-to-Waist and Waist-to-Eye Level progressive isoinertial lifting evaluation scores) in a sample of active duty military members with chronic musculoskeletal pain and comorbid depression or PTSD symptoms. Analysis revealed that pre-treatment depression and PTSD symptoms did not significantly predict rehabilitation outcomes from program completers. Implications of these findings for future research on trauma-related pain comorbidities are discussed.
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