European journal of pain : EJP
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Reporting of pain that does not interfere with life is common in the older population but little is known about people with such long-term non-interfering pain. ⋯ Long-term non-interfering pain is common, but despite often suffering from high pain intensity and widespread pain, those within this group seem to be able to control their pain without allowing it to affect their everyday lives. Future work is needed to assess how people with long-term pain ensure it does not cause interference with life.
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Enhancement of physical activities is an important goal in rehabilitation programmes for patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP). A relationship between activity level and psychological factors is suggested but studied scarcely. ⋯ Psychological factors and activity level were unrelated in patients with CMP.
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To test whether mechanical hyperalgesia is associated with multiple idiopathic pain disorders (IPDs) and whether this relationship is independent of the confounding effects of psychosocial factors. ⋯ The dose-response relationship between TPs and IPDs needs further investigation to determine the temporal nature of these relationships and to disentangle the complex gene-environment relationships that may influence the occurrence of multiple IPDs.
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Little is known about the communication of everyday pain between young children and their parents, i.e. when children experience pain resulting from minor injury or illness that occur in everyday life. This study aimed to gain an in-depth understanding of how parents make sense of their young children's expression of everyday pains and how they respond. ⋯ These findings suggest that parents have well developed, although personal, ways of recognizing and responding to their children's communication of pain, but also experience uncertainty in their judgments. Parents would benefit from information about the developmental aspects of pain and should be included as active partners in their children's pain assessment and management.