Stress-related musculoskeletal pain

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 549-565

  McFarlane, Alexander Cowell ^a  

^a Centre for Military and Veterans Health   (Australia)

Author keywords

musculoskeletal; stress

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BACKACHE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CHRONIC PAIN; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LIFE EVENT; LIFE STRESS; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL STRESS; MOOD DISORDER; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NEUROBIOLOGY; NOCICEPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STRESS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNITED STATES; WORKING MEMORY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; PAIN; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; STRESS;

EID: 34250893171     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2007.03.008     Document Type: Review

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