Clinically observed all of the time, but great to have a reference for it: Patients who are distracted from their pain feel it a lot less, and patients who are in a good mood perceive their pain to be less unpleasant. My recommendation for clinical practice: distract your patients from their pain and make them happy, e.g. get them to tell you all about their cat/grandchild/holiday while you are torturing them. While you apply evil soft tissue therapy to one body part, you could simultaneously apply a non-painful stimulus (such as gentle massage) to another body part and get them to focus on the pleasant stimulus. It is probably also not a good idea to ask the patient to rate their pain on a pain-scale at every treatment or constantly use the word ‘pain’. In addition, the patient could ask their caring relatives/friends to stop asking them about their pain as this, despite being well-intentioned, serves as a constant reminder. Bushnell MC, Čeko M and Low LA, 2013. Cognitive and emotional control of pain and its disruption in chronic pain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 14(7), 502-511. Available online: yoga4arthritis/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/YFA-pain-article.pdf
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