RT Book, Section
A1 Wootton, Joshua R.
A2 Warfield, Carol A.
A2 Bajwa, Zahid H.
SR Print(0)
ID 3410582
T1 Chapter 13. Psychosocial Assessment of Chronic Pain
T2 Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine, 2e
YR 2004
FD 2004
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071443494
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=3410582
RD 2023/10/01
AB Why  does  one  patient  develop  chronic  pain  and  face  disability,  while  another—with  seemingly  the  same  injuries,  extent  of  tissue  damage,  and  quality  of  medical  care—recovers  and  returns  to  normal  activity  following  a  brief  convalescence?  Arguably,  there  may  be  biologic  variables  between  the  two  that  are  difficult  to  discern  medically,  but  a  comparison,  in  most  cases,  is  likely  to  reveal  that  the  greater  portion  of  the  variance  consists  of  psychosocial  differences.  When  pain  physicians  wonder  why  a  patient  fails  to  respond  to  procedures  and  medications  that  have  proven  efficacious  for  many  others  with  the  same  medical  presentation,  it  is  frequently  the  pain  psychologist  who  can  offer  the  most  reasonable  and,  more  importantly,  functional  set  of  hypotheses.