Behavioral assessment and treatment of chronic pain: Current status and future directions.

MEASUREMENT OF PAIN

1974 • 4,075 citations

Depression: Causes and treatment

1973 • 3,286 citations

Behavioral methods for chronic pain and illness

1977 • 1,617 citations

On the Language of Pain

1971 • 932 citations

Cognition and behavior modification

1974 • 876 citations

Epidemiology and Impact of Low-Back Pain

1980 • 486 citations

Development of an observation method for assessing pain behavior in chronic low back pain patients

1982 • 451 citations

Behavioral distress in children with cancer undergoing medical procedures: Developmental considerations.

1980 • 426 citations

Operant conditioning in the treatment of chronic pain

1975 • 394 citations

Assessment of Chronic Pain

1981 • 388 citations

Validity and sensitivity of ratio scales of sensory and affective verbal pain descriptors: Manipulation of affect by diazepam

1978 • 339 citations

Cognitive distortion and cognitive errors in depressed psychiatric and low back pain patients.

1981 • 314 citations

Classification of clinical pain descriptions by multiple group discriminant analysis

1976 • 288 citations

PAIN AND DISABILITY OF THE SHOULDER AND ARM

1942 • 268 citations

Narcotic Analgesia: Fentanyl Reduces the Intensity But Not the Unpleasantness of Painful Tooth Pulp Sensations

1979 • 228 citations

Preoperative psychological tests as predictors of success of chemonucleolysis in the treatment of the low-back syndrome

1975 • 222 citations

Traits of pain patients: The low-back “loser”

1973 • 197 citations

The pain perception profile: A psychophysical approach to the assessment of pain report

1982 • 194 citations

The role of conditioning in drug tolerance and addiction.

1979 • 188 citations

A CONCENTRIC SHOCK ELECTRODE FOR PAIN STIMULATION

1965 • 173 citations

A social epidemiology of back pain in a general population

1973 • 169 citations

Multivariate analyses of the MMPI profiles of low back pain patients

1978 • 155 citations

Effects of different cognitive strategies on chronic pain experience

1979 • 143 citations

Electromyographic studies of bruxist behavior before and during treatment.

1975 • 126 citations

A comparison of cognitive impairment due to benzodiazepines and to narcotics

1980 • 110 citations

Assessing benefits of the pain center: Why some patients regress

1980 • 107 citations

Multidisciplinary treatment of chronic pain: long-term follow-up of low-back pain patients ★

1977 • 106 citations

Pain-patient MMPI subgroups: The psychological dimensions of pain

1982 • 106 citations

An Investigation of the Response of the Spouse to Chronic Pain Behavior1

1981 • 102 citations

Comparison of verbal reinforcement and feedback in the operant treatment of disability due to chronic low back pain

1977 • 101 citations

Cyclobenzaprine hydrochloride effect on skeletal muscle spasm in the lumbar region and neck: two double-blind controlled clinical and laboratory studies.

1978 • 100 citations

A comprehensive treatment approach to chronic low back pain

1976 • 99 citations

FURTHER PHYSIOLOGICAL CORRELATES OFETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN RESPONSES TO SHOCK

1967 • 92 citations

A New Method of Quantitative Measurement of Abdominal and Back Muscle Strength

1980 • 92 citations

Comprehensive rehabilitation of patients having chronic low back pain.

1977 • 91 citations

Pain and suffering. The spectrum of suffering.

1974 • 90 citations

The effectiveness of EMG biofeedback training in low back pain

1979 • 88 citations

Behavioral approaches to treatment of chronic pain: the inaccuracy of patient self-report measures.

1981 • 84 citations

Neurophysiologic and Pathologic Aspects of Acute and Chronic Pain

1977 • 84 citations

Assessment Strategies in Behavioral Medicine

1979 • 84 citations

Behavioral treatment of chronic low back pain: Clinical outcome and individual differences in pain relief

1981 • 80 citations

The MMPI as a predictor of response to conservative treatment for low back pain

1979 • 79 citations

Psychophysiology of recurrent headache: Methodological issues and new empirical findings

1982 • 79 citations

Life Situations, Emotions, and Backache

1952 • 78 citations

The use of the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory with low back pain patients

1976 • 78 citations

Paralumbar muscle activity in chronic low back pain.

1981 • 77 citations

An evaluation of a behavioral program for chronic pain

1982 • 76 citations

Self-regulation techniques in the management of chronic arthritic pain in hemophilia

1981 • 75 citations

Treatment of phantom limb pain with muscular relaxation training to disrupt the pain-anxiety-tension cycle

1979 • 75 citations

Results of treatment of chronic low-back pain at the Portland Pain Center

1976 • 73 citations

EMG feedback training during dynamic movement for low back pain patients

1982 • 73 citations

Pain assessment in humans — A reply to hall

1981 • 69 citations

Behavioral treatment of chronic pain: variables affecting treatment efficacy

1980 • 68 citations

The effects of anxiety and frustration on muscular tension related to the temporomandibular joint syndrome

1973 • 63 citations

Principal dimensions of the pain experience and psychological disturbance in chronic low back pain patients

1981 • 60 citations

The dissatisfied patient with chronic pain

1977 • 56 citations

Program for managing chronic pain. I. Program description and characteristics of patients.

1976 • 55 citations

Changes in pain perception after treatment for chronic pain

1981 • 54 citations

The use of the MMPI with chronic low back pain patients with a mixed diagnosis

1976 • 52 citations

Behavioral management of chronic pain in children: case study.

1980 • 52 citations

Normative data on low back mobility and activity levels. Implications for neuromuscular reeducation.

1979 • 50 citations

Ventilatory response to intractable pain

1981 • 49 citations

β-Endorphin Immunoreactivity and Acute Behavioral Distress in Children with Leukemia

1982 • 45 citations

PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF LOW BACK PAIN

1978 • 42 citations

Low back pain in patients with and without demonstrable organic disease

1979 • 41 citations

The MMPI and chronic pain: The diagnosis of psychogenic pain

1978 • 41 citations

Relaxation techniques in treatment of chronic pain.

1977 • 31 citations

On the Magnitude Scaling of Political Opinion in Survey Research

1981 • 29 citations

A Comparison of Two Psychophysiological Approaches to the Treatment of Migraine

1981 • 27 citations

Personality Organization as an Aspect of Back Pain in a Medical Setting

1978 • 23 citations

Relation Between Graduated Spinal Block Technique and MMPI for Diagnosis and Prognosis of Chronic Low-Back Pain

1977 • 22 citations

Pain, dying, and the health care system

1979 • 17 citations

Assessing the Reactive as Well as the Sensory Component of Headache Pain

1981 • 15 citations

Facts and Fallacies about Neuromuscular Function in Cerebral Palsy as Revealed by Electromyography

1966 • 13 citations

Comment on 'Personality Organization as an Aspect of Back Pain in a Medical Setting.'

1978 • 12 citations

Therapeutic aspects in chronic pain: Modulation of nociception, alleviation of suffering, and behavioral analysis

1982 • 11 citations

Variation in Meaning of Pain Descriptors for Different Headache Types as Revealed by Psychophysical Scaling

1982 • 10 citations

Improving Diagnostic Strategies for Pain Patients

1980 • 10 citations

Behavioral Treatment of Pain

1982 • 7 citations

Effect of relaxation on discriminative sensitivity and ratings of sensory experience

1980 • 5 citations