A brief cognitive-behavioural intervention for pain reduces secondary hyperalgesia

• Published in: Pain (Amsterdam) Vol. 155; no. 8; pp. 1446 - 1452
• Main Authors: Salomons, Tim V., Moayedi, Massieh, Erpelding, Nathalie, Davis, Karen D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia, PA Elsevier B.V 01.08.2014; International Association for the Study of Pain; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Allodynia; Behavior therapy. Cognitive therapy; Biological and medical sciences; Catastrophizing; CBT; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - methods; Female; Hot Temperature; Humans; Hyperalgesia - psychology; Hyperalgesia - therapy; Male; Medical sciences; Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes); Nervous system as a whole; Neurology; Pain - psychology; Pain Management - methods; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Psychotherapy, Brief - methods; Secondary hyperalgesia; Treatment Outcome; Treatments; Unpleasantness; Young Adult; Allodynia; Secondary hyperalgesia; CBT; Catastrophizing; Unpleasantness; Nervous system diseases; Cognitive therapy; Treatment; Pain; Pleasure unpleasure; Behavior therapy; Hyperalgesia

A brief cognitive behavioural intervention reduces pain unpleasantness and secondary hyperalgesia elicited by repeated nociceptive thermal stimuli. Repeated exposure to pain can result in sensitization of the central nervous system, enhancing subsequent pain and potentially leading to chronicity. Th...