Life Situations, Emotions and Backache

Two pages on PainSci cite Holmes 1952: 1. The Complete Guide to Low Back Pain 2. Does anxiety cause back pain? 

PainSci notes on Holmes 1952:

Sarno writes of this paper: “Subsequently I found another paper, written by Drs. Holmes and Wolff, both well-known pioneers in the study of pain, that related life situations, emotions and backaches. From this paper came the idea that reduced blood circulation might be the physical basis for [low back pain].”

This page is part of the PainScience BIBLIOGRAPHY, which contains plain language summaries of thousands of scientific papers & others sources. It’s like a highly specialized blog. A few highlights:

• Classical Conditioning Fails to Elicit Allodynia in an Experimental Study with Healthy Humans. Madden 2017 Pain Med.
• Topical glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) and eccentric exercises in the treatment of mid-portion achilles tendinopathy (the NEAT trial): a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial. Kirwan 2024 Br J Sports Med.
• Placebo analgesia in physical and psychological interventions: Systematic review and meta-analysis of three-armed trials. Hohenschurz-Schmidt 2024 Eur J Pain.
• Recovery trajectories in common musculoskeletal complaints by diagnosis contra prognostic phenotypes. Aasdahl 2021 BMC Musculoskelet Disord.
• Cannabidiol (CBD) products for pain: ineffective, expensive, and with potential harms. Moore 2023 J Pain.