Practitioner Resources & Academic Research
General Psychophysiologic Medicine
Psychophysiologic symptom relief therapy for chronic back pain: a pilot randomized controlled trial
PAIN Reports
By Michael Donnino, et al.
September/October 2021
Also, check out this article about the study.
Effect of Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Patients With Chronic Back Pain
JAMA Psychiatry
by Yoni K. Ashar, Alan Gordon, and Howard Schubiner
September 2021
Also, check out this Washington Post article about the study.
Annotated Bibliography for Psychophysiologic Disorders and Chronic Pain
Psychophysiologic Disorders Association
Compiled by Jeffrey Axelbank, Georgie Oldfield, and David Clarke
October 2021
Future Directions in Psychological Therapies for Pain Management
Pain Medicine
by Asimina Lazaridou, Myrella Paschali, and Robert R. Edwards
November 2020
Chronic pain after surgery: Let’s talk about the elephant(s) in the room
Pain News - The British Pain Society
By Deepak Ravindran
March 2020
Psychological Therapy for Centralized Pain:
An Integrative Assessment and Treatment Model
Psychosomatic Medicine
by Mark A. Lumley and Howard Schubiner
February/March 2019
Emotional awareness and expression therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and education for fibromyalgia:
a cluster-randomized controlled trial
PAIN, The Journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain
by Mark A. Lumley, Howard Schubiner, Nancy A. Lockhart, Kelley M. Kidwell, Steven E. Harte, Daniel J. Clauw, and David A. Williams
December 2017
Psychophysiologic Disorders:
Diagnosis and Treatment of Medically Unexplained Symptoms and Chronic Functional Syndromes
Families, Systems, & Health
by David D. Clarke
December 2016
Direct diagnosis and management of emotional factors in the chronic headache patients
Cephalalgia
By A. Abbass, D. Lovas, and A. Purdy
December 2008
Somatization: Diagnosing it sooner through emotion-focused interviewing
The Journal of Family Practice
by Allan Abbass
March 2005
The Neurobiology and Consequences of Trauma
Adverse childhood events and adult chronic pain: Dealing with the ACEs that life has deal you
Pain News - The British Pain Society
By R. Munglani
March 2020
Relationship between traumatic events in childhood and chronic pain (Abstract)
Disability and Rehabilitation
By RT Goldberg, et al.
January 1999
Relationship of childhood abuse and household dysfunction to many of the leading causes of death in adults. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study.
American Journal of Preventative Medicine
by V J Felitti, et al.
May 1998
Childhood psychological trauma correlates with unsuccessful lumbar spine surgery
Spine
by J. Schofferman, et al.
June 1992
The Limitations of Imaging
Unintended consequences: quantifying the benefits, iatrogenic harms and downstream cascade costs of musculoskeletal MRI in UK primary care
BMJ Open Quality
by Imran Mohammed Sajid, Anand Parkunan, and Kathleen Frost
July 2021
Magnetic resonance imaging of the lumbar spine in people without back pain
The New England Journal of Medicine
by Maureen C. Jensen, et al.
July 1994
Systematic Literature Review of Imaging Features of Spinal Degeneration in Asymptomatic Populations
American Journal of Neuroradiology
by Brinjikji, et al.
April 2015