Lifestyle and Chronic Pain

Dear Colleagues,

Chronic pain has a tremendous personal and socioeconomic impact and remains a challenge for many clinicians. Cumulating evidence shows that lifestyle factors such as physical (in)activity, stress, poor sleep, unhealthy diet, and smoking are associated with chronic pain severity and sustainment across all age categories. A paradigm shift from a tissue- and disease-based approach towards individually tailored multimodal lifestyle interventions should lead to improved outcomes and decrease the psychological and socioeconomic burden of chronic pain. For all these reasons, this Special Issue of the Journal of Clinical Medicine is dedicated to Lifestyle and Chronic Pain. The Special Issue will include five invited state-of-the-art papers, each addressing a key lifestyle factor of importance for patients with persistent pain. These state-of-the-art papers are written by leading experts and key opinion leaders in the field, and will boost the impact and exposure of all papers included in the Special Issue. The present Special Issue offers a unique opportunity to contribute to this breakthrough area of chronic pain, including, but not limited to, the following major areas: musculoskeletal pain, rheumatic pain, paediatric pain, postsurgical pain, cancer pain, pain in athletes, pain in elderly, and neuropathic pain. We welcome submissions from anywhere in the world, as long as the focus of the paper is lifestyle and chronic pain. Manuscript formats can vary from literature reviews (systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses or narrative reviews and perspective articles) to original research (trials, cohort studies, experimental lab work, case-control studies) and consensus statements, as long as they are of high quality and focused on lifestyle and chronic pain. Case reports and study protocols cannot be included. Authors publishing in this Special Issue will contribute significantly to the paradigm shift towards a lifestyle approach for patients with chronic pain!

Prof. Dr. Jo Nijs
Prof. Dr. Felipe J J Reis
Guest Editors

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