Objectives. 1) To determine the number of primary care clinic visits attributable to musculoskeletal pain (MSP) in children >3 and <15 years of age. 2) To describe the demographic characteristics of this population assessed for limb/back pain. 3) To characterize the etiology of musculoskeletal pain in an urban general pediatric clinic in Madrid, Spain. Methods. Prospective evaluation of 1000 co...

Abstract Objective Chronic pain is an important health problem and affects both quality of life mental health. This study assessed psychological inflexibility, intensity, life, anxiety depression symptoms, self-efficacy, social support among patients with chronic pain. Method A quasiexperimental design was used to assess six adult participants pre- post-group intervention (eight sessions) based...

This study assessed the effects of a 6-week telephone based intervention on the pain intensity and physical function of patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA), and compared the results to physiotherapy conducted in the clinic. Fifty randomly selected patients with knee OA were assigned to one of two treatment groups: a clinic group (CG) and a tele-physiotherapy group (TG). The CG received thric...

UNLABELLED The Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure (PRISM) is a recently developed tool designed to measure the burden of suffering due to illness in a variety of patient populations. The purpose of the current study was to validate PRISM as a measure of suffering in patients with chronic non-cancer pain. Patients (n = 138) were recruited from 2 hospital pain clinics, where the...

OBJECTIVE With the ongoing expansion of palliative care services throughout the United States, meeting the needs of socioeconomically marginalized populations, as in all domains of healthcare, continues to be a challenge. Our specific aim here was to help meet some of these needs through expanding delivery of pain and palliative care services by establishing a new clinic for underserved patient...

STUDY DESIGN Consecutive case series cohort. OBJECTIVE To determine the relative frequencies of the spine, the sacroiliac (SI) joint, and the hip joint being the primary pain generator among patients presenting at a spine surgery clinic for low back pain (LBP). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Identification of the primary pain generator in a patient with LBP is difficult. Possible pain sources i...

OBJECTIVE To examine the factors associated with FPs' referrals of patients with chronic noncancer pain to a tertiary care pain clinic. DESIGN A questionnaire-based survey; data were analyzed using univariate methods. SETTING A tertiary care pain clinic in Toronto, Ont. Participants All FPs who referred patients to the clinic between 2002 and 2005. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Variables explored...

The approach to the management of patients with a variety of chronic pain problems who present to the multidisciplinary Grey's Hospital Pain Clinic is outlined.