Pain Disorder
Pain disorder is chronic pain experienced by a patient in one or more areas, and is thought to be caused by psychological stress. The pain is often so severe that it disables the patient from proper functioning.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: PW149
Diagnosis: Pain Disorder
US Patients:
World Patients:
Sex Ratio: M;F+
Age Onset: Children
Brain Area:
Symptoms: Chronic pain thought to be caused by psychological stress; after accident, during illness, after drug withdrawal – but pain continues
Progression: After the pain should be gone, it increases due to attention or benefits for it.
Causes:
Medications: transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, trigger-point injections, surgical ablations
Therapies: CBT-talk to retrain behaviors. Lohr’s “Calming My Pain!” DVD or Download (offered on this website) may help if used as requested.
Youtube Video: Pain and the Brain
Amazon or Library Book: When Children Feel Pain
Click the book to link or order from Amazon.
Jim Lohr’s own “Calming My Pain” can be downloaded
from the “Blue Box” on this website.
You can download this program from the “Blue Box”
in the right column of the website.
Support Group: painconnection.org; 800-910-0664
(U. S. Pain Foundation)
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
reports chosen for each diagnosis
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PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- Improvements with burosumab treatment in an early access programme for adults with X-linked hypophosphataemia: A case series of three patientsby Julia Day on December 3, 2024
X-linked hypophosphataemia (XLH) is a life-long phosphate-wasting disorder that causes skeletal deformities, pain, stiffness, and fatigue and impairs quality of life. Burosumab was approved for use in adults in 2020. We describe three adults with persistent XLH symptoms who received burosumab treatment in a real-world setting. Patients report improvements in pain, mobility, physical function, energy, fatigue, and mental wellbeing through patient-reported outcome measures, enriched with further...
- Pediatric eosinophilic esophagitis: a Belgian single-center retrospective analysis reveals real-life difficulties in diagnosis and treatmentby Toon Dominicus on December 3, 2024
INTRODUCTION: Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic immune-mediated disorder characterized by eosinophilic infiltration of the esophageal mucosa.
- Is There a Natural, Non-addictive, and Non-anti-reward, Safe, Gene-based Solution to Treat Reward Deficiency Syndrome? KB220 Variants vs GLP-1 Analogsby Edward Justin Modestino on December 2, 2024
Reward deficiency syndrome (RDS) is an umbrella term encompassing a wide array of addictive behaviors that affect individuals across diverse spectra of society. Our research group has conducted a plethora of studies investigating the utilization of KB220 and its various iterations for addressing RDS, including: dopamine homeostasis, brain areas associated with dopamine, functional connectivity, qEEG, reductions of cravings, relapse prevention and detoxification, opioid-seeking and attenuation of...
- Conservative Management of Cervicogenic Dizziness Associated With Upper Cervical Instability and Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome: A Case Reportby Robert J Trager on December 2, 2024
Cervicogenic dizziness (CGD) is a disorder in which dizziness arises from cervical spine dysfunction and is diagnosed after excluding other conditions. We present a case of a 27-year-old woman with a six-year history of dizziness, neck and cervicothoracic pain, and occipital-temporal-orbital headaches. The patient also experienced occasional severe, incapacitating episodes of dizziness with vomiting. Previous evaluations, including advanced imaging, had helped rule out central, otolithic, and...