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  • 1School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia. Dianne.wilson@unisa.edu.au

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Persistent pain patients pay more attention to pain words, influencing their pain experience. Personalized pain descriptors and therapist communication may offer new management strategies.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Linguistics

Background:

  • Persistent pain is modulated by attention to pain words.
  • Language may play a role in understanding and managing pain.
  • Neuromatrix models for pain and language processing are emerging.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Describe pain and language neuromatrix models.
  • Consider the role of attention in persistent pain.
  • Highlight discrepancies in studies on attention and pain descriptors.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic search for studies on attention and pain descriptors in persistent pain.
  • Reviewed 41 articles from six databases.
  • Investigated the link between persistent pain, descriptors, and attention.

Main Results:

  • Increased attention to pain descriptors is linked to emotional state and pain maintenance.
  • Discrepancies exist in studies investigating attentional bias for specific pain descriptors.
  • Inconsistent categorization of pain descriptors and lack of consistent bias were observed.

Conclusions:

  • Standard pain questionnaires may not capture the individual nature of persistent pain.
  • Personalized pain descriptors could enhance pain communication but increase attention.
  • Therapist-patient language may be an unexplored pain management strategy.