Mind-body therapies for the self-management of chronic pain symptoms

Pain Medicine (United States)

Volumn 15, Issue S1, 2014, Pages

  Lee, Courtney ^a   Crawford, Cindy ^a   Hickey, Anita ^b   Buckenmaier, Chester C ^c   Crawford, Paul ^c   Delgado, Roxana ^c   Freilich, Daniel ^c   Jonas, Wayne B ^c   May, Todd ^c   Petri, Richard P ^c   Schoomaker, Eric B ^c   Spevak, Christopher ^c   Swann, Steven ^c   York, Alexandra ^c  

^a Samueli Institute   (United States)

^b Naval Hospital   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Chronic Pain; Complementary and Integrative Medicine; Mind Body Therapies; Rapid Evidence Assessment of the Literature; Self Care; Systematic Review

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; AUTOGENIC TRAINING; CHRONIC PAIN; CONSTIPATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FIBROMYALGIA; GUIDED IMAGERY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; LOW BACK PAIN; MEDITATION; META ANALYSIS; MIGRAINE; MINDFULNESS; NECK PAIN; PATIENT CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RELAXATION TRAINING; SELF CARE; SHOULDER PAIN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VESTIBULODYNIA; ANALGESIA; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; TRENDS;

BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; CHRONIC PAIN; HUMANS; MEDITATION; MIND-BODY THERAPIES; PAIN MANAGEMENT; RELAXATION THERAPY; SELF CARE;

EID: 84921424994     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pme.12383     Document Type: Review

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