In partnership with the United States Association for the Study of Pain (US Association for the Study of Pain), The Journal of Pain announces an opening for 5 early career editorial fellow positions to increase diversity, begins 1/1/25. Application due November 1, 2024 For more info: jpain.org/pb-assets/Heal…

Original: A secondary analysis by Tim Fleagle, Dr. Kathleen Sluka, Dr. Ruth Chimenti et al. of data from 315 participants from 2 clinical trials establishes the Minimally Clinically Important Change (MCIC) for movement pain between 0.9 – 1.6/10 Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Original: Drs. Helen Burton Murray, Ph.D., Taylor Boyd, Joseph Chibueze et al. report that ethnic minority groups are under-represented, as well as Caucasian race and women are over-represented, in chronic pain trials. Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Original: Drs. Patrick Knox, Gregory Hicks and colleagues found that static and dynamic pain sensitivity develops with chronological aging, thus impacting the geriatric chronic pain populations. Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Original: Jiaxin An, Drs Zhang (UT Austin), and Chen (University of Washington) report how people with fibromyalgia use mobile apps to manage their health — Findings could inform the development of digital interventions or programs for this population Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Original: Jaimie K. Beveridge (she/her), Drs. Dr. Katie Birnie, Dr. Melanie Noel et al. found that parents (w/ & w/o chronic pain) were variable in anxiety, mood, protectiveness, & parenting stress, but this did not predict youth’s chronic pain-related functioning Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Original: Drs. Dave Walton, Pavlos Bobos & MacDermid identified 5 clusters of responses to standardized self-report questionnaires by Canadian military veterans with chronic pain. —Useful for triaging veterans to the appropriate pain care providers FREE: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Original: Tatiana Lund, Dr. Dr. Melanie Noel and team studied pain in the offspring of Canadian Armed Forces Members/Veterans with chronic pain — PTSD symptoms & pain interference were related w/i Veterans & offspring, but no dyadic relationships were found Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Original: Bridges, Torsney, Bates and Luciano (The University of Edinburgh) found a relationship between poor reading ability in childhood and pain in childhood and adulthood Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Original: Drs. Zoltan Kekecs, Gary Elkins and al. found that, when the hypnosis intervention utilizes suggestions aimed at reducing pain, elements of hypnosis inductions are not required. Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Original: Dr Dr Sarah B Wallwork and colleagues observed that shared reading of picture books prompted caregiver-child interactions about pain and injury — Critical opportunity to promote learning of adaptive pain-related concepts and behaviors Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Original: Wouter Van Bogaert, Eva Huysmans, Ronald Buyl and team found that the effects of perioperative pain neuroscience education (PPNE) are mediated by pain catastrophizing, but not pain sensitivity and cognition. Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Original: Drs. Yoshino, Yamawaki et al. discovered that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) normalizes power spectral density and multiscale entropy in the right inferior frontal gyrus and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of patients with chronic pain. Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Featured: Drs. Yanfei Xie💉💉💉, Michele Sterling and team revealed that while vitamin D status is not a key independent determinant of chronic regional musculoskeletal pain, severe vitamin D deficiency may be associated with chronic widespread pain. Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Review: Drs. Alaverdyan, Simon Haroutounian et al. reviewed risk factors contributing to persistent post-surgical pain after inguinal hernia repair — Laparoscopy, absorbable mesh, and fibrin glue reduce risk Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Review: Drs. Chen X. Chen, Janet Carpenter and coll. reviewed the social determinants of dysmenorrhea, finding — Evidence was equivocal regarding the relationships between dysmenorrhea outcomes and social determinant factors Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Review: Bec, Dr. Joshua W. Pate, PhD et al. observed low-certainty evidence that pain science education improved kids and caregivers knowledge & beliefs — Effects of learning in a child/carer dyad have been rarely studied jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Review: Drs. Elżbieta A. Bajcar and Przemysław Bąbel reviewed the social learning processes of placebo effects in pain —Dispositional empathy shapes observationally induced placebo effects. Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Original: Maité Van Alboom, Dr. Liesbet Goubert & colleagues’ findings suggest indirect association between structural network characteristics and the mental well-being of individuals with chronic pain Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Original: Drs. Chinonso Nwamaka Igwesi-Chidobe, Benjamin Ozumba et al. found that low back pain is associated with occupational biomechanical and psychosocial factors, anxiety and fear-avoidance FREE: jpain.org/article/S1526-…