ArticleNeural plasticity2021
Impaired Cognitive Empathy in Outpatients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study.
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- Effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions on empathy: A meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
- High-Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Improves Pain Empathy: A Randomized, Double-Blind, and Sham-Controlled Study Based on Event-Related Potentials (ERPs).Journal of pain research · 2025Trial
- Enhanced Empathic Pain by Facial Feedback.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Pain Empathy and Its Association with the Clinical Pain in Knee Osteoarthritis Patients.Journal of pain research · 2022Article
- Analgesic Self-medication Among Patients With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain in a South African Chiropractic Teaching Clinic: A Cross-sectional Study.Journal of chiropractic medicineArticle
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Abstract
Background: In recent years, a growing number of researchers showed significant interest in psychological and social interventions to manage chronic musculoskeletal (MSK) pain. Cognitive and emotional empathy is an attractive and valuable sociopsychological factor that may provide protection and resilience against chronic MSK pain. However, its effect on outpatients remains underexplored. Objective: To compare the empathy ability between chronic MSK pain outpatients and healthy controls and explore the relationship between cognitive/emotional empathy and chronic pain. Methods: Patients with chronic MSK pain ( Results: The data indicated that the chronic MSK pain outpatients had impaired cognitive empathy (i.e., lower squared cognitive empathy accuracy: Student's Conclusion: These results indicate that chronic MSK pain is associated with impaired empathy ability. Our studies contribute to offering a potential direction for developing psychosocial interventions to treat chronic MSK pain.
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