Medicate or meditate? Greater pain acceptance is related to lower pain medication use in persons with chronic pain and spinal cord injury
The Clinical Journal of Pain Mar 22, 2018
Kratz AL, et al. - Researchers here investigated if higher chronic pain acceptance, which is a readily modified pain self-management approach, is related to lower use of pain medications (eg, opioid medications, and gabapentinoids) in a sample with chronic pain and spinal cord injury (SCI). They observed that patients having a more accepting orientation to pain were less reliant on pain medications. These patients thereby experienced lower risks associated with medication consumption.
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