Unhelpful Thoughts and Distress Regarding Symptoms Limit Accommodation of Musculoskeletal Pain

CONCLUSION: We found that distress (unhelpful feelings) and unhelpful thoughts about symptoms are separate factors with important and comparable associations with accommodation to pain. It also appears that these two factors can be measured with just a few questions. Being attentive to the language people use and the language of influential questions might improve clinician identification of mental health opportunities in the form of distress and unhelpful thoughts about symptoms, which in turn might contribute to better accommodation and alleviation of symptoms.LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level II, prognostic study.PMID:34652286 | DOI:10.1097/CORR.0000000000002006
Source: Pain Physician - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Source Type: research