How does distraction work in the management of pain?

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 90-95

  Johnson, Malcolm H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BREATHING EXERCISE; CHRONIC PAIN; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONSCIOUSNESS; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE CONTROL; DISTRACTIBILITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEAR; HUMAN; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NOCICEPTION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATIENT ATTITUDE; REVIEW; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THINKING; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 17044430258     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-005-0044-1     Document Type: Review

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