Controlling pain
|
Topic |
Study |
Details |
Evaluation |
Application |
|
Chemicals |
Types |
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Urban
et al 1986 |
Phantom
Limb |
|
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|
|
Andrasik
et al 1986 |
Placebo |
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|
Keeri-Szanto
1979 |
Method
to reduce drug intake (p6) |
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|
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Behavioural
and Cognitive Methods |
|
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|
|
|
Relaxation
and Biofeedback |
Holroyd
& Penzien 1985 |
Biofeedback
more successful |
|
|
|
|
Blanchard
& Andrasik 1985 |
Elderly
patients |
|
|
|
|
Attanasio
et al 1985 |
Patients
with high correlation between pain and EMG |
|
|
|
Cognitive
Techniques |
Brown
et al 1986 |
Dentists |
|
|
|
|
Smith
& Wallston 1992 |
Problem
with passive coping |
|
|
|
Distraction |
McCaul
& Malott 1984 |
More
effective for mild or moderate pain |
|
|
|
|
McCaul
et al 1992 |
Distraction
task did not reduce pain |
|
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|
|
Melzack
et al 1963 |
Belief
in distraction task |
|
|
|
Imagery |
Fernandez
1986 |
|
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|
|
Redefinition |
Basler
and Rehfisch 1990 (p6) |
12
week intervention |
|
|
|
Evaluation
of cognitive strategies |
Holroyd
et al 1991 |
As
good as chemical methods |
|
|
|
|
Rybstein-Blinchik
1979 |
Redefinition
better than distraction |
|
|
|
Hypnosis |
Barber
1986 |
As
good as cognitive strategies |
|
|
|
Insight-oriented
psychotherapies |
Szasz,
cited in Bakal 1979 |
Pain
games |
|
|
|
Surgery |
|
|
Terminally
ill only |
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Physical
therapies |
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