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Title: | Can You Feel the Burn? Using Neuroimaging to Illuminate the Mechanisms of Mindfulness Interventions for Pain |
Authors: | Harmer, Catherine J Gillespie, Amy L |
Keywords: | Mindfulness Pain Management |
Issue Date: | Oct-2022 |
Citation: | Amy Gillespie, and Catherine J. Harmer. Can You Feel the Burn? Using Neuroimaging to Illuminate the Mechanisms of Mindfulness Interventions for Pain. Am J Psychiatry Volume 179 Issue 10 October 2022 Pages 705-707 |
Abstract: | Chronic pain is one of the leading causes of disability and morbidity worldwide (1), and there is a real clinical need for non-opioid-based treatment options. As such, there is a growing body of research investigating mindfulness interventions for pain. There have been two recent meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials in pain, both with modest positive conclusions, although both also commented on the heterogeneity and low quality of many of the trials included. A meta-analysis focusing on mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) interventions for patients with chronic pain (2) found evidence for a small effect size, and another on patients with acute pain (3) concluded that there is weak to moderate evidence for mindfulness improving pain tolerance or threshold, but no good-quality evidence for reducing pain severity or pain-related distress. |
Description: | Open Access |
URI: | https://oxfordhealth-nhs.archive.knowledgearc.net/handle/123456789/1163 |
Appears in Collections: | Cognitive Behaviour Therapy |
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