Pain Flashbacks in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 83-87

  Salomons, Timothy V ^a   Osterman, Janet E ^b   Gagliese, Lucia ^a,c,d   Katz, Joel ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Awareness under anesthesia; Flashbacks; Pain memory; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Somatosensory memory; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONSCIOUSNESS; EMOTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LAMINECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEG PAIN; MEMORY; NIGHTMARE; NOCICEPTION; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SYMPTOM; UTERINE TUBE LIGATION;

ADULT; AGED; AWARENESS; BACK PAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; DREAMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LAMINECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPY; MEMORY; PAIN; STERILIZATION, TUBAL; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 1342330963     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002508-200403000-00004     Document Type: Article

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