Relationship Between Pressure Pain Threshold and Coping Strategies in Patients with Fibromyalgia

Ji-Young Song; Samuel Noh; Manfred Harth; Harold Merskey

doi:10.1155/1998/265735

Pain Research and Management (Jan 1998)

Relationship Between Pressure Pain Threshold and Coping Strategies in Patients with Fibromyalgia

Ji-Young Song,
Samuel Noh,
Manfred Harth,
Harold Merskey

Affiliations

Ji-Young Song: Department of Psychiatry, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Samuel Noh: Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Manfred Harth: Department of Psychiatry and Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Harold Merskey: Department of Psychiatry and Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/1998/265735
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 23 – 32

Abstract

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OBJECTIVE: To explore the hypothesis that the intensity of pain, pain thresholds and coping mechanisms differ between patients with fibromyalgia and those with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in order to determine whether pain coping strategies contribute to the understanding of how patients adjust to fibromyalgia.

Published in Pain Research and Management

ISSN: 1203-6765 (Print); 1918-1523 (Online)
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General)
Website: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/prm/

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