Is chronic pain a disease in its own right? Discussions from a pre-OMERACT 2014 workshop on chronic pain

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1947-1953

  Taylor, Ann M ^a   Phillips, Kristine ^b   Taylor, Justin O ^c   Singh, Jasvinder A ^g,h,i   Conaghan, Philip G ^d,e   Choy, Ernest H ^a   Tugwell, Peter S ^f   Kaiser, Ulrike ^j   Strand, Vibeke ^l   Simon, Lee S ^m   Mease, Philip J ^k,l  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Barry Chiropractic Clinic   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e Chapel Allerton Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^g Department of Medicine at the School of Medicine ^*  (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

ⁱ Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^l STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m SDG LLC   (United States)

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Author keywords

Biomedical; Biopsychosocial; Central sensitization; OMERACT; Rheumatologic conditions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CENTRAL SENSITIZATION; CHRONIC PAIN; CINGULATE GYRUS; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FIBROMYALGIA; HEREDITY; HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INSULA; INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS; IRRITABLE COLON; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NEUROENDOCRINE DISEASE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NOCICEPTION; PAIN HYPERSENSITIVITY; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIZATION; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDER; WORKSHOP;

EID: 84943338917     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: 14992752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.141328     Document Type: Article

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