Introduction: Chronic low back pain (cLBP) is a leading cause of disability worldwide and is frequently refractory to pharmacological treatment. Mindfulness meditation has been shown to reduce pain through modulation of self-referential, cognitive and affective mechanisms. However, the neural mechanisms supporting the direct and immediate modulation of movement-evoked cLBP by mindfulness...
Chronic low back pain (cLBP) is the most prevalent chronic pain condition. There are no treatments that haven been found to directly assuage evoked cLBP. To this extent, mindfulness-meditation is a promising pain therapy. Yet, it is unclear if meditation can be utilized to directly attenuate evoked chronic pain through endogenous opioids. A double-blind, randomized, and placebo-controlled...
The status of sensory stimulation as a clinical procedure is still in some doubt. Recent papers have shown no significant clinical changes as a result of sensory intervention but this may be due to an inappropriate model on which these procedures were based. This paper outlines the results of a controlled pilot study, based on a sensory regulation model currently being tested at the Casa Colina...