ArticleThe journal of pain2018
Sex and Race Differences in Pain Sensitization among Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain.
Article in The journal of pain, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03644810 (The Efficiency of Conditioned Pain Modulation is Associated With Levels of Pain Catastrophizing in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain), which is not on this map. Cited by 51 papers.
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The Efficiency of Conditioned Pain Modulation is Associated With Levels of Pain Catastrophizing in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain
Who cites it
51 citing papers in PubMed, 90 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Age-Related Transitions in Low Back Pain Pathology: A Life-Course Narrative Review.Pain and therapy · 2026Review
- Invisible pain: Sex/gender differences in pain-related stigma.Acta psychologica · 2026Article
- Demographic patterns in quantitative sensory testing and clinical pain among former professional American-style football players.Pain reports · 2026Article
- Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Management of Pregnancy-Related Chronic Back Pain.Current pain and headache reports · 2026Review
- Assessment of central pain sensitization in chronic low back pain and its utility in diagnosis and prediction of clinical severity.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Perspectives on Pain: A Narrative Review of Pain Beliefs, Coping, and Clinical Implications.Journal of pain research · 2026Review
- Plasma Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines in an Observational Chronic Low Back Pain Cohort.JOR spine · 2025Article
- Neighborhood social vulnerability as a mediator of racial disparities in insomnia severity.Sleep health · 2025Article
- Sociodemographically differential patterns of chronic pain progression revealed by analyzing the all of us research program data.PLOS digital health · 2025Article
- Global burden of low back pain from 1990 to 2021: a comprehensive analysis of risk factors and trends using the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Low back pain among the working-age population: from the global burden of disease study 2021.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2025Article
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- Disparities in Clinical and Experimental Pain Between Non-Hispanic White and Asian American Individuals With Knee Osteoarthritis and the Role of Pain Catastrophizing: Pilot Study in Florida.Asian/Pacific Island nursing journal · 2025Article
- Physiotherapy Reduces Pain and Alters Fatty Acid Biomarkers in Women with Chronic Non-Specific Low Back Pain.International journal of women's health · 2025Article
- Ethnic differences in pain, function, and catastrophizing in South Florida adults with knee osteoarthritis.PloS one · 2025Article
- Racial Disparities in Outpatient Physical Therapy Use After Hip Fracture: A Retrospective Cohort StudyThe Journal of orthopaedic and sports physical therapy · 2024Article
- Relationships Between Socioecological Factors and Self-Efficacy to Participate in Physical Activity for Adults With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: An Integrative Review.Physical therapy · 2024Review
- Associations of pain sensitivity and conditioned pain modulation with physical activity: findings from the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study (MOST).Osteoarthritis and cartilage · 2024Observational
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Abstract
Growing evidence suggests that chronic low back pain (CLBP) is associated with pain sensitization, and that there are sex and race disparities in CLBP. Given the sex and race differences in pain sensitization, this has been hypothesized as a mechanism contributing to the sex and race disparities in CLBP. This study examined sex and race differences in pain sensitization among patients with CLBP, as well as the role of catastrophizing as a potential mediator of those differences. The study found that compared with men, women required less pressure to produce deep muscle pain and rated mechanical punctate pain as more painful. Compared with non-Hispanic white patients, black patients demonstrated greater pain sensitivity for measures of deep muscle hyperalgesia and mechanical punctate pain. Furthermore, catastrophizing partially mediated the race differences in deep muscle pain such that black participants endorsed greater pain catastrophizing, which partially accounted for their increased sensitivity to, and temporal summation of, deep muscle pain. Taken together, these results support the need to further examine the role of catastrophizing and pain sensitization in the context of sex and race disparities in the experience of CLBP. PERSPECTIVE: This study identifies sex and race differences in pain sensitization among patients with CLBP. Further, it recognizes the role of catastrophizing as a contributor to such race differences. More research is needed to further dissect these complex relationships.
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