Evidence of Augmented Central Pain Processing in Idiopathic Chronic Low Back Pain

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 613-623

  Giesecke, Thorsten ^a   Gracely, Richard H ^a   Grant, Masilo A B ^a   Nachemson, Alf ^b,c   Petzke, Frank ^d   Williams, David A ^a   Clauw, Daniel J ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; FINGER NAIL; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PARIETAL LOBE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THUMB; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; BRAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; LOW BACK PAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRESSURE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 1042301967     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.20063     Document Type: Article

References (66)

1. Deyo RA, Weinstein JN, Primary care: low back pain. N Engl J Med 2001;344:363-70.
2. Andersson GBJ. Epidemiological features of chronic low-back pain. Lancet 1999;354:581-5.
3. Shekelle PG, Markovich S, Louie R. An epidemiologic study of episodes of back pain care. Spine 1995;20:1668-73.
4. Shekelle PG, Markovich M, Louie R. Comparing the costs between provider types of episodes of back pain care. Spine 1995;20:221-6.
5. Deyo RA. Diagnostic evaluation of LBP: reaching a specific diagnosis is often impossible. Arch Intern Med 2002;162:1444-7.
6. Nachemson A, Vingard E. Assessment of patients with neck and back pain: a best-evidence synthesis. In: Nachemson A, Jonsson E, editors. Neck and back pain: the scientific evidence of causes, diagnosis and treatment. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins; 2000. p. 189-235.
7. Jensen MC, Brant-Zawadzki MN, Obuchowski N, Modic MT, Malkasian D, Ross JS. Magnetic resonance imaging of the lumbar spine in people without back pain. N Engl J Med 1994;331:69-73.
8. Boden SD, McCowin PR, Davis DO, Dina TS, Mark AS, Wiesel S. Abnormal magnetic-resonance scans of the cervical spine in asymptomatic subjects: a prospective investigation. J Bone Joint Surg Am 1990;72:1178-84.
9. Bigos SJ, Battie MC, Spengler DM, Fisher LD, Fordyce WE, Hansson TH, et al. A prospective study of work perceptions and psychosocial factors affecting the report of back injury. Spine 1991;16:1-6.
10. Burton AK, Tillotson KM, Main CJ, Hollis S. Psychosocial predictors of outcome in acute and subchronic low back trouble. Spine 1995;20:722-8.
11. Croft PR, Papageorgiou AC, Ferry S, Thomas E, Jayson MI, Silman AJ. Psychologic distress and low back pain: evidence from a prospective study in the general population. Spine 1995;20:2731-7.
12. Frymoyer JW, Rosen JC, Clements J, Pope MH. Psychologic factors in low-back-pain disability. Clin Orthop 1985;195:178-84.
13. Greenough CG, Fraser RD. Comparison of eight psychometric instruments in unselected patients with back pain. Spine 1991;16:1068-74.
14. Linton SJ. A review of psychological risk factors in back and neck pain. Spine 2000;25:1148-56.
15. Clauw DJ, Williams D, Lauerman W, Dahlman M, Aslami A, Nachemson AL, et al. Pain sensitivity as a correlate of clinical status in individuals with chronic low back pain. Spine 1999;24:2035-41.
16. Mense S, Hoheisel U, Reinert A. The possible role of substance P in eliciting and modulating deep somatic pain. Progress in Brain Research 1996;110:125-35.
17. Granges G, Littlejohn G. Pressure pain threshold in pain-free subjects, in patients with chronic regional pain syndromes, and in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome. Arthritis Rheum 1993;36:642-6.
18. Leffler AS, Hansson P, Kosek E. Somatosensory perception in a remote pain-free area and function of diffuse noxious inhibitory controls in patients suffering from long-term trapezius myalgia. Eur J Pain 2002;6:149-59.
19. Staud R, Vierck CJ, Cannon RL, Mauderli AP, Price DD. Abnormal sensitization and temporal summation of second pain (wind-up) in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome. Pain 2001;91:165-75.
20. Kosek E, Hansson P. Modulatory influence on somatosensory perception from vibration and heterotopic noxious conditioning stimulation in fibromyalgia patients and healthy subjects. Pain 1997;70:41-51.
21. Casey KL, Minoshima S, Morrow TJ, Koeppe RA. Comparison of human cerebral activation pattern during cutaneous warmth, heat pain, and deep cold pain. J Neurophysiol 1996;76:571-81.
22. Casey KL. Match and mismatch: identifying the neuronal determinants of pain. Ann Intern Med 1996;124:995-8.
23. Gelnar PA, Krauss BR, Sheehe PR, Szeverenyi NM, Apkarian AV. A comparative fMRI study of cortical representations for thermal painful, vibrotactile, and motor performance tasks. Neuroimage 1999;10:460-82.
24. Derbyshire SW. Imaging the brain in pain. In: APS bulletin. Vol. 9. American Pain Society; 1999. p. 7-8.
25. Peyron R, Garcia-Larrea L, Gregoire MC, Costes N, Convers P, Lavenne F, et al. Haemodynamic brain responses to acute pain in humans: sensory and attentional networks. Brain 1999;122:1765-80.
26. Silverman DH, Munakata JA, Ennes H, Mandelkern MA, Hoh CK, Mayer EA. Regional cerebral activity in normal and pathological perception of visceral pain. Gastroenterology 1997;112:64-72.
27. Gracely RH, Petzke F, Wolf JM, Clauw DJ. Functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence of augmented pain processing in fibromyalgia. Arthritis and Rheumatism 2002;46:1333-43.
28. Abenhaim L, Rossignol M, Valat JP, Nordin M, Avouac B, Blotman F, et al. The role of activity in the therapeutic management of back pain: report of the International Paris Task Force on Back Pain. Spine 2000;25:1S-33S.
29. Weiner DK, Distell B, Studenski S, Martinez S, Lomasney L, Bongiorni D. Does radiographic osteoarthritis correlate with flexibility of the lumbar spine? J Am Geriatr Soc 1994;42:257-63.
30. Videman T, Battie MC, Gill K, Manninen H, Gibbons LE, Fisher LD. Magnetic resonance imaging findings and their relationships in the thoracic and lumbar spine: insights into the etiopathogenesis of spinal degeneration. Spine 1995;20:928-35.
31. Wolfe F, Smythe HA, Yunus MB, Bennett RM, Bombardier C, Goldenberg DL, et al. The American College of Rheumatology 1990 criteria for the classification of fibromyalgia: report of the Multicenter Criteria Committee. Arthritis Rheum 1990;33:160-72.
32. Hertzog C, Van Alstine J, Usala PD, Hultsch D, Dixon R. Measurement properties of the Center for Epidemiological Studies depression scale in older populations. Psychol Assess 1990;2:64-72.
33. Spielberger CD, Gorsuch RL, Lushene R. Manual for the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory: self-evaluation questionnaire. Palo Alto: Consulting Psychologists Press; 1979.
34. Daut RL, Cleeland CS, Flanery RC. Development of the Wisconsin Brief Pain Questionnaire to assess pain in cancer and other diseases. Pain 1983;17:197-210.
35. Melzack R. The Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire. Pain 1987;30:191-7.
36. Petzke F, Khine A, Williams D, Groner K, Clauw DJ, Gracely RH. Dolorimetry performed at 3 paired tender points highly predicts overall tenderness. J Rheumatol 2001;28:2568-9.
37. Gracely RH, Dubner R, McGrath PA. Narcotic analgesia: fentanyl reduces the intensity but not the unpleasantness of painful tooth pulp sensations. Science 1979;203:1261-3.
38. Gracely RH, Lota L, Walter DJ, Dubner R. A multiple random staircase method of psychophysical pain assessment. Pain 1988;32:55-63.
39. Worsley KJ, Evans AC, Marrett S, Neelin P. A three-dimensional statistical analysis for CBF activation studies in human brain. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 1992;12:900-18.
40. Talairach J, Tournoux P. Coplanar stereotaxic atlas of the human brain. New York: Thieme Medical Publishers; 1988.
41. Lancaster JL, Woldorff MG, Parsons LM, Liotti M, Freitas ES, Rainey L, et al. Automated Talairach Atlas labels for functional brain mapping. Human Brain Mapping 2000;10:120-31.
42. Peyron R, Laurent B, Garcia-Larrea L. Functional imaging of brain responses to pain: a review and meta-analysis. Neurophysiol Clin 2000;30:263-88.
43. Baron R, Baron Y, Disbrow E, Roberts TP. Brain processing of capsaicin-induced secondary hyperalgesia: a functional MRI study. Neurology 1999;53:548-57.
44. Mauguiere F, Frot M, Peyron R, Garcia-Larrea L, Laurent B, Michel D. The role of parietal opercular and insular cortex in pain sensation in humans: data from PET activation studies and intracortical recordings of CO2 laser evoked potentials. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol Suppl 1999;49:255-60.
45. Coghill RC, Talbot JD, Evans AC, Meyer E, Gjedde A, Bushnell MC, et al. Distributed processing of pain and vibration by the human brain. J Neuroscience 1994;14:4095-108.
46. Coghill RC, Sang CN, Maisog JM, Iadarola MJ. Pain intensity processing within the human brain: a bilateral, distributed mechanism. J Neurophysiol 1999;82:1934-43.
47. Derbyshire SW, Jones AK. Cerebral responses to a continual tonic pain stimulus measured using positron emission tomography. Pain 1998;76:127-35.
48. Kinomura S, Kawashima R, Yamada K, Ono S, Itoh M, Yoshioka S, et al. Functional anatomy of taste perception in the human brain studied with positron emission tomography. Brain Res 1994;659:263-6.
49. Phillips ML, Young AW, Senior C, Brammer M, Andrew C, Calder AJ, et al. A specific neural substrate for perceiving facial expressions of disgust. Nature 1997;389:495-8.
50. Teders SJ, Blanchard EB, Andrasik F, Jurish S, Neff DF, Arena J. Relaxation training for tension headache: comparative efficacy and cost-effectiveness of a minimal therapist contact versus a therapist-delivered procedure. Behavior Therapy 1984;15:59-70.
51. Kashima K, Rahman OI, Sakoda S, Shiba R. Increased pain sensitivity of the upper extremities of TMD patients with myalgia to experimentally-evoked noxious stimulation: possibility of worsened endogenous opioid systems. Cranio 1999;17:241-6.
52. Maixner W, Fillingim R, Booker D, Sigurdsson A. Sensitivity of patients with painful temporomandibular disorders to experimentally evoked pain. Pain 1995;63:341-51.
53. Wilder-Smith OHG, Tassonyi E, Arendt-Nielsen L. Preoperative back pain is associated with diverse manifestations of central neuroplasticity. Pain 2002;97:189-94.
54. Carli G, Suman AL, Biasi G, Marcolongo R. Reactivity to superficial and deep stimuli in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain. Pain 2002;100:259-69.
55. Mountz JM, Bradley LA, Modell JG, Alexander RW, Triana-Alexander M, Aaron LA, et al. Fibromyalgia in women: abnormalities of regional cerebral blood flow in the thalamus and the caudate nucleus are associated with low pain threshold levels. Arthritis Rheum 1995;38:926-38.
56. Peyron R, Garcia-Larrea L, Gregoire MC, Convers P, Lavenne F, Veyre L, et al. Allodynia after lateral-medullary (Wallenberg) infarct: a PET study. Brain 1998;121:345-56.
57. Derbyshire SW, Jones AK, Devani P, Friston KJ, Feinmann C, Harris M, et al. Cerebral responses to pain in patients with atypical facial pain measured by positron emission tomography. J Neurol, Neurosurg, Psychiatry 1994;57:1166-72.
58. Derbyshire SW, Jones AK, Creed F, Starz T, Meltzer CC, Townsend DW, et al. Cerebral responses to noxious thermal stimulation in chronic low back pain patients and normal controls. Neuroimage 2002;16:158-68.
59. Wolfe F. The relation between tender points and fibromyalgia symptom variables: evidence that fibromyalgia is not a discrete disorder in the clinic. Ann Rheum Dis 1997;56:268-71.
60. Petzke F, Gracely RH, Park KM, Ambrose K, Clauw DJ. What do tender points measure? Influence of distress on 4 measures of tenderness. J Rheumatol 2003;30:567-74.
61. Gracely RH, Grant MA, Giesecke T. Evoked pain measures in fibromyalgia. Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol 2003;17:593-609.
62. Wessely S, Nimnuan C, Sharpe M. Functional somatic syndromes: one or many? Lancet 1999;354:936-9.
63. Clauw DJ, Chrousos GP. Chronic pain and fatigue syndromes: overlapping clinical and neuroendocrine features and potential pathogenic mechanisms. Neuroimmunomodulation 1997;4:134-53.
64. Kroenke K, Spitzer RL, deGruy FVI, Hahn SR, Linzer M, Williams JB, et al. Multisomatoform disorder: an alternative to undifferentiated somatoform disorder for the somatizing patient in primary care. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1997;54:352-8.
65. Fishbain D. Evidence-based data on pain relief with antidepressants. Ann Med 2000;32:305-16.
66. Donta ST, Clauw DJ, Engel CC Jr, Guarino P, Peduzzi P, Williams DA, et al. Cognitive behavioral therapy and aerobic exercise for Gulf War veterans' illnesses: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA 2003;289:1396-404.