Pain Science Research
26 peer-reviewed studies, with plain-language summaries and links to the original research.
- Attempting to separate placebo effects from exercise in chronic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysisMeta-analysisSummary2021
- A meta-analysis of therapeutic pain neuroscience education, using dosage and treatment format as moderator variablesMeta-analysisSummary2020
- Pain neuroscience education for adults with chronic musculoskeletal pain: a mixed-methods systematic review and meta-analysisMeta-analysisSummary2019
- A biopsychosocial model for understanding training load, fatigue, and musculoskeletal sport injury in university athletes: a scoping reviewSystematic review
- Kinesiophobia, catastrophizing, and the duration of immobilization: a prospective studyCohort study
- Cold and hot water immersion are not more effective than placebo for the recovery of physical performancePrimary studySummary2025
- Comparative efficacy of platelet-rich plasma, corticosteroid, hyaluronic acid, and placeboPrimary studySummary2025
- Pain science education concepts for pelvic pain: an e-Delphi of expert cliniciansConsensusSummary2025
- "I wish I knew then what I know now": pain science education concepts important for female athletesPrimary studySummary2024
- Why might fears and worries persist after a pain education-grounded multimodal interventionPrimary studySummary2024
- Tampa scale of kinesiophobia may underestimate task-specific fear of movementPrimary studySummary2023
- Nociplastic pain criteria or recognition of central sensitization? Pain phenotyping in the past, present and futurePrimary studySummary2021
- Arthroscopic partial meniscectomy for a degenerative meniscus tear: a 5 year follow-up of the placebo-surgery controlled FIDELITY (Finnish Degenerative Meniscus Lesion Study) trialPrimary studySummary2020
- The interplay of exercise, placebo and nocebo effects on experimental painPrimary studySummary2018
- Nociplastic pain: facts, controversies and future tasksPrimary study2025
- "I wish I knew then what I know now": pain science education concepts important for female athletesPrimary study2024
- Clinical improvements due to specific effects and placebo effects in conservative interventionsPrimary study2024
- Short- and medium-term effects of a single session of pain neuroscience educationPrimary study2024
- The biopsychosocial model is lost in translation: from misrepresentation to an enactive modernizationPrimary study2022
- Chronic nociplastic pain affecting the musculoskeletal system: clinical criteria and grading systemPrimary study2021
- What do patients value learning about pain? A mixed-methods survey on the relevance of target concepts after pain science educationPrimary study2021
- The Fear Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire (FABQ): does it really measure fear beliefs?Primary study2020
- An enactive approach to pain: beyond the biopsychosocialPrimary study2019
- Nocebo hyperalgesia can be induced by the observation of a model showing natural pain expressionsPrimary study2019
- Symptom perception, placebo effects and the Bayesian brainPrimary study
- Editorial: nocebo effects and negative suggestions in daily clinical practice, forms, impact, and approaches to avoid themNarrative reviewSummary2019