Low Back Pain: Recent Advances And Perspectives
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2016) | Viewed by 162761
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pain management; biopsychosocial research; clinical health psychology
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Dear Colleagues,
The prevalence of chronic pain is greater than the total number of individuals in the U.S. with diabetes, heart disease, and cancer combined. Musculoskeletal pain is the most common single type of chronic pain; chronic low back pain is the most prevalent in this category, and is one of the major health problems in the U.S. With these statistics in mind, a Special Issue of Healthcare is warranted in order to update many of the recent advances and perspectives of this health problem. A number of topics will be covered: prevalence and epidemiological data; the biopsychosocial perspective of pain, which is now the most heuristic model embrace by clinical researchers; assessment and treatment approaches; and important psychosocial mediators/moderators, such as coping skills, fear avoidance, etc.
Prof. Dr. Robert J. Gatchel
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- low back pain
- prevalence
- biopsychosocial model
- psychosocial mediators/moderators
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