Improved life satisfaction and pain reduction: follow-up of a 5-week multidisciplinary long-term pain rehabilitation programme.

Background: Multidisciplinary rehabilitation programmes can improve physical functioning and help patients with long-term pain back to work. Little is known, however, of the extent to which such rehabilitation also affects life satisfaction, pain severity, and disability. We wanted to evaluate if a 5-week rehabilitation programme for patients with long-term pain improves life satisfaction and decreases pain severity and disability.

Life satisfaction in patients with long-term non-malignant pain - relating LiSat-11 to the Multidimensional Pain Inventory (MPI).

Background: The West-Haven Multidimensional Pain Inventory (MPI) can be used to describe behavioural and psychosocial consequences of long-term pain but little is known about how MPI items and MPI subgroups relate to goals that patients find important in rehabilitation. Life satisfaction measured by the LiSat-11 checklist can be defined as an individual's perception of the difference between his reality and his needs or wants. This difference can be considered a "goal achievement gap".

Life satisfaction in patients with long-term non-malignant pain-relation to demographic factors and pain intensity.

Purpose: Life satisfaction can be defined as a measure of a patient's perception of the difference between his reality and his needs or wants. Here we compare life satisfaction in patients with long-term pain to a reference group sampled from the normal population, and relate the results to pain intensity and to demographic factors.

Method: Questionnaires containing the Life satisfaction (LiSat-11) checklist, a visual analogue scale (VAS) for pain, and questions on demographic background.

Neurochemical characterization of neuronal populations expressing protein kinase C gamma isoform in the spinal cord and gracile nucleus of the rat.

Protein kinase C gamma (PKCgamma) is widely distributed throughout the CNS and is thought to play a role in long term hyper-excitability in nociceptive neurones. Here, we provide the first report of PKCgamma cells in the dorsal column nuclei of the adult rat. Retrograde labeling of PKCgamma cells from the thalamus with choleragenoid revealed that 25% of the PKCgamma positive gracile cells projected to the thalamus.