The Clinical journal of pain

CONTEXT: Chronic pain affects 1 in 9 young adults worldwide. Intensive interdisciplinary pain treatment (IIPT) has shown favorable outcomes in improving in pain intensity, mood, school attendance, and social and physical functioning in pedi…

OBJECTIVES: Beliefs and knowledge about pain can influence how an individual approaches pain management. At present, there have been no investigations into the beliefs and knowledge that females hold about their pelvic pain; therefore, pain…

OBJECTIVES: Endometriosis, a painful chronic gynecologic condition, contributes to disruptions in multiple areas of life for both those affected and their partner. Pain catastrophizing has been associated with worse pain outcomes and qualit…

OBJECTIVES: Central sensitization (CS) contributes to patient variability when treating pain in endometriosis. Targeting this process may alleviate hyperalgesia and allodynia in women refractory to current treatments. Currently, there has b…

ObjectivesParents have a vital influence over their child's chronic pain treatment and management. Graded exposure in vivo treatment (GET) is emerging as a promising intervention for youth with chronic pain. Yet, little is known about how p…

OBJECTIVE: The impact of pain on quality of life and mental health of women with endometriosis is well known. However, the role that personality traits and coping strategies might have in influencing pain experience is still poorly understo…

ObjectivesFibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a chronically painful condition whose symptoms are widely reported to be exacerbated by stress. We hypothesized that female patients with FMS differ from pain-free female controls in their sympatheti…

OBJECTIVE: Evidence supports high rates of co-occurrence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and chronic pain disorders involving central sensitization (CS). The nature of this relationship, however, remains relatively unexplored. In th…

Chalmers, K. Jane PhD*; Catley, Mark J. PhD†; Evans, Susan F. MBBS‡; Moseley, G. Lorimer DSc, PhD†Author Information

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to assess the validity, reliability, and factor structure of the Impact of Female Chronic Pelvic Pain Questionnaire (IF-CPPQ). MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a cross-sectional questionnaire study that…

OBJECTIVES: To determine if pain catastrophizing is independently associated with pain health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) in women with endometriosis, independent of potential confounders. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Analysis of cross-secti…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the feasibility of a detailed pain sensitivity assessment using body-wide musculoskeletal tender points (TPs) in women with different types of chronic pelvic pain (CPP) and compare phenotypic differences. MATERIALS …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Central sensitivity syndrome (CSS) encompasses disorders with overlapping symptoms in a spectrum of structural pathology from persistent somatic nociception (eg, osteoarthritis) to absence of tissue injury such as…

OBJECTIVE: Catheterization to measure bladder sensitivity is aversive and hinders human participation in visceral sensory research. Therefore, we sought to characterize the reliability of sonographically estimated female bladder sensory thr…

OBJECTIVE: Pelvic pain is a primary symptom of women referred for hysterectomy. This study identified risk factors for purchase of prescribed analgesics before and after hysterectomy and examined purchase changes after hysterectomy, specifi…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the expression of capsaicin receptor [transient receptor potential vanilloid type-1 (TRPV1)] in the peritoneum of women with chronic pelvic pain (CPP). METHODS: A case-control study was conducted on 25 women with …