ArticlePain research & management2017
Effects of a Pain Catastrophizing Induction on Sensory Testing in Women with Chronic Low Back Pain: A Pilot Study.
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- Pain Catastrophizing Moderates the Relationship Between Pain Sensitivity and Clinical Pain in Adolescents With Functional Abdominal Pain.The journal of pain · 2024Article
- Indication for spinal sensitization in chronic low back pain: mechanical hyperalgesia adjacent to but not within the most painful body area.Pain reports · 2024Article
- Pressure pain thresholds in a real-world chiropractic setting: topography, changes after treatment, and clinical relevance?Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2022Article
- Study on Pain Catastrophizing From 2010 to 2020: A Bibliometric Analysis via CiteSpace.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Quantitative Sensory Testing Across Chronic Pain Conditions and Use in Special Populations.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Assessment of the Quality of Mobile Applications (Apps) for Management of Low Back Pain Using the Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Pain catastrophizing and distress intolerance: prediction of pain and emotional stress reactivity.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2020Article
- Effect of Cognitive-Behavioral Training on Pain Self-Efficacy, Self-Discovery, and Perception in Patients with Chronic Low-Back Pain: A Quasi-Experimental Study.Anesthesiology and pain medicine · 2019Article
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- What do you expect? Catastrophizing mediates associations between expectancies and pain-facilitatory processes.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2019Article
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- Sex and Race Differences in Pain Sensitization among Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain.The journal of pain · 2018Article
- Encoding of Self-Referential Pain Catastrophizing in the Posterior Cingulate Cortex in Fibromyalgia.Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2018Article
- Optimizing Placebo and Minimizing Nocebo to Reduce Pain, Catastrophizing, and Opioid Use: A Review of the Science and an Evidence-Informed Clinical Toolkit.International review of neurobiology · 2018Review
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Abstract
Pain catastrophizing, a pattern of negative cognitive-emotional responses to actual or anticipated pain, maintains chronic pain and undermines response to treatments. Currently, precisely how pain catastrophizing influences pain processing is not well understood. In experimental settings, pain catastrophizing has been associated with amplified pain processing. This study sought to clarify pain processing mechanisms via experimental induction of pain catastrophizing. Forty women with chronic low back pain were assigned in blocks to an experimental condition, either a psychologist-led 10-minute pain catastrophizing induction or a control (10-minute rest period). All participants underwent a baseline round of several quantitative sensory testing (QST) tasks, followed by the pain catastrophizing induction or the rest period, and then a second round of the same QST tasks. The catastrophizing induction appeared to increase state pain catastrophizing levels. Changes in QST pain were detected for two of the QST tasks administered, weighted pin pain and mechanical allodynia. Although there is a need to replicate our preliminary results with a larger sample, study findings suggest a potential relationship between induced pain catastrophizing and central sensitization of pain. Clarification of the mechanisms through which catastrophizing affects pain modulatory systems may yield useful clinical insights into the treatment of chronic pain.
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