The Stressful Characteristics of Pain That Drive You NUTS: A Qualitative Exploration of a Stress Model to Understand the Chronic Pain Experience.

M Gabrielle PagéLise DassieuElise DevelayMathieu RoyEtienne Vachon-PresseauSonia LupienPierre Rainville PhD

Published in: Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) (2021)

The NUTS characteristics seem to offer a comprehensive framework to understand how pain and its context of chronicity can be a source of stress. This study provides preliminary support for the pain-NUTS framework to allow the formal integration of pain and stress research.

Keyphrases

chronic pain
pain management
neuropathic pain
stress induced
heat stress