Cited by 199Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitationPain Mechanisms and TreatmentsPain Management and Treatment

Social Pain and Physical Pain: Shared Paths To Resilience

Open access
Sturgeon, John A, Zautra, Alex J·2016·Pain Management

Abstract

Although clinical models have traditionally defined pain by its consequences for the behavior and internal states of the sufferer, recent evidence has highlighted the importance of examining pain in the context of the broader social environment. Neuroscience research has highlighted commonalities of neural pathways connecting the experience of physical and social pain, suggesting a substantial overlap between these phenomena. Further, interpersonal ties, support and aspects of the social environment can impair or promote effective adaptation to chronic pain through changes in pain perception, coping and emotional states. The current paper reviews the role of social factors in extant psychological interventions for chronic pain, and discusses how greater attention to these factors may inform future research and clinical care.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.2217/pmt.15.56

Cites

82 of 82 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 1

  1. [67]Zautra AJ Fostering resilience to chronic pain through the humanization of social relations Presented at: Advancing Pain Care through Behavior Change Science & Mobile Health Technologies Conference: The Translational Research Institute on Pain in Later Life (TRIPLL) New York, NY, USA 1 May 2015

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Sturgeon, J. A., & Zautra, A. J.
Affiliations
  • Stanford Medicine (US)
  • Arizona State University (US)
Venue
Pain Management
Published
2015-12-17
Volume
6
Issue
1
Pages
63-74
ISSN
  • 1758-1869 (ISSN-L)
  • 1758-1877
OpenAlex
W2223147583
Cited by
199
References
82
Citations by year
2026: 18 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 29 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 5
FWCI
0.67
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Pain Management (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institute on Drug Abuse (3T32DA035165-02S1)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine › Pain Management and Treatment
Keywords
social pain, bodily pain, chronic pain, resilience, social support, interpersonal relationships, pain perception, coping, emotional state, psychological intervention, social environment
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Social Environment, Social Support, Caregivers, Resilience, Psychological, Chronic Pain

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review