Abstract—The development of effective pain treatment strategies requires the availability of precise and practical measures of treatment outcomes, the importance of which has been noted in the Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA’s) National Pain Initiative. This paper presents the results of a 5

published systematic reviews with meta-analyses in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews until October 20, 2011. We identified randomized trials (or meta-analyses thereof, when.1 trial was available) where both pain and sleep outcomes were examined. Pain outcomes were categorized as headache

a b s t r a c t Emerging evidence suggests that perceived injustice is a risk factor for adverse outcomes associated with chronic pain. To date, however, the processes by which perceived injustice impacts on pain outcomes remain speculative. Evidence from several lines of research suggests

Most patients with advanced or metastatic cancer experience pain and despite several guidelines, undertreatment is well documented. A multicenter, open-label, prospective, non-randomised study was launched in Italy in 2006 to evaluate the epidemiology, patterns and quality of pain care of cancer

regarding the comparative effectiveness of commonly used diagnostic tests and treatments in the elderly. The overall goal of the Back pain Outcomes using Longitudinal Data (BOLD) project is to establish a rich, sustainable registry to describe the natural history and evaluate prospectively the effectiveness

-100 N). Clinicians delivered five treatments over two weeks consisting of three sets of five cycles of MCD at the C5 vertebra and occiput. Traction forces were measured at each treatment. Patient-reported outcomes included a pain visual analogue scale (VAS), Neck Disability Index (NDI), Credibility

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extended to focal hand dystonia of musicians and possibly phantom limb pain.

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and psychological comorbidity predicts poor pain outcomes after total knee arthroplasty