Differences in Pain, Psychological Symptoms, and Gender Distribution among Patients with Left- vs Right-Sided Chronic Spinal Pain

Pain Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1373-1380

  Wasan, Ajay D ^a   Anderson, Nina K ^b   Giddon, Donald B ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic Pain; Gender; Laterality; Psychopathology

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BRIEF PAIN INVENTORY; CHI SQUARE TEST; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECK PAIN; NERVE BLOCK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEX RATIO; SPINAL PAIN; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 77956528530     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2010.00922.x     Document Type: Article

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