Linking Pain and Motor Control: Conceptualization of Movement Deficits in Patients With Painful Conditions
This paper outlines a motor control framework showing how pain and pain anticipation alter movement through sensory, cognitive, and motor processes.
The interaction between stress and chronic pain through the lens of threat learning
This review argues that threat learning is a key mechanism linking stress and chronic pain, integrating evidence on cortisol and maladaptive learning.
Immersive Virtual Reality and Virtual Embodiment for Pain Relief
This review explores immersive VR and virtual embodiment as tools to modulate body perception and reduce pain.
Is Tactile Acuity Altered in People With Chronic Pain? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
This systematic review shows reduced tactile acuity in several chronic non-neuropathic pain conditions, supporting altered body representation in chronic pain.
Can Biomechanics Research Lead to More Effective Treatment of Low Back Pain?
This commentary debates whether biomechanics alone can guide effective treatment for low back pain, concluding that isolated biomechanical approaches are insufficient.
My body is not working right: a cognitive behavioral model of body image and chronic pain
This paper presents a cognitive-behavioral model explaining how chronic pain shapes negative body perceptions, contributing to pain persistence and altered body image.
Lifeworlds in pain: a principled method for investigation and intervention
This paper presents a unified framework for understanding pain integrating anthropology and Bayesian computational psychiatry.
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence of chronic widespread pain in the general population
This systematic review and meta-analysis estimates chronic widespread pain prevalence at around 10% of adults, with higher rates in women and older individuals.
An enactive approach to pain: beyond the biopsychosocial model
This paper introduces a 5E framework of pain integrating phenomenology and cognitive science to move beyond biomedical and biopsychosocial models.
The IASP classification of chronic pain for ICD-11: functioning properties of chronic pain
This narrative review presents the IASP proposal for defining functioning properties of chronic pain within ICD-11, linking it to the ICF framework to improve pain assessment and patient management.