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Initial depression severity and the trajectory of recovery following cognitive-behavioral intervention for work disabilityMichael J L Sullivan
Department of Psychology, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Occup Rehabil 16:63-74. 2006..The present study examined the recovery trajectories of a group of mildly depressed and moderately-severely depressed injured workers enrolled in a 10-week community-based rehabilitation program...
Perceived injustice: a risk factor for problematic pain outcomesMichael J L Sullivan
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Clin J Pain 28:484-8. 2012..Emerging research suggests that perceptions of injustice after musculoskeletal injury can have a significant impact on a number of pain-related outcomes...- Catastrophizing and perceived injustice: risk factors for the transition to chronicity after whiplash injuryMichael J L Sullivan
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 36:S244-9. 2011..The article will summarize research that has supported the role of pain catastrophizing and perceived injustice as risk factors for problematic recovery after whiplash injury... - Psychological determinants of problematic outcomes following Total Knee ArthroplastyMichael Sullivan
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Que, Canada H3A 1B1
Pain 143:123-9. 2009..The results suggest that interventions designed to specifically target pain-related psychological risk factors might improve post-surgical outcomes... - Psychological influences on repetition-induced summation of activity-related pain in patients with chronic low back painMichael J L Sullivan
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Que, Canada H3A 1B1
Pain 141:70-8. 2009..The findings point to possible neurophysiological mechanisms that could help explain why fear of pain is a robust predictor of pain-related disability. Mechanisms of repetition-induced summation of activity-related pain are discussed... - Pain, perceived injustice and the persistence of post-traumatic stress symptoms during the course of rehabilitation for whiplash injuriesMichael J L Sullivan
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Canada
Pain 145:325-31. 2009..The development of effective intervention techniques for targeting perceptions of injustice might be important for promoting recovery of post-traumatic stress symptoms consequent to whiplash injury... - Activity-related summation of pain and functional disability in patients with whiplash injuriesMichael J L Sullivan
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Pain 151:440-6. 2010..Discussion also addresses whether RISP might represent a risk factor for problematic recovery outcomes following whiplash injury... - Stage of chronicity and treatment response in patients with musculoskeletal injuries and concurrent symptoms of depressionMichael J L Sullivan
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Canada
Pain 135:151-9. 2008..Discussion addresses the factors that might contribute to treatment resistance as the period of disability extends over time... - Judgments about pain intensity and pain genuineness: the role of pain behavior and judgmental heuristicsMarc O Martel
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
J Pain 12:468-75. 2011..These inferences play an important role in treatment decisions and advances in this domain could ultimately contribute to more effective management of the challenges facing patients with pain-related disorders... - Service, advocacy and adjudication: balancing the ethical challenges of multiple stakeholder agendas in the rehabilitation of chronic painMichael J L Sullivan
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Disabil Rehabil 29:1596-603. 2007.... - The role of presurgical expectancies in predicting pain and function one year following total knee arthroplastyMichael Sullivan
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Pain 152:2287-93. 2011..The results suggest that interventions designed to specifically target behavioral outcome expectancies and catastrophizing might improve post-surgical outcomes... - The role of perceived injustice in the experience of chronic pain and disability: scale development and validationMichael J L Sullivan
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Docteur Penfield Avenue, Montreal, QC, Canada, H3A 1B1
J Occup Rehabil 18:249-61. 2008..The primary objective of this research was to evaluate the psychometric properties of a questionnaire designed to assess perceive injustice associated with injury... - A prospective sequential analysis of the fear-avoidance model of painTimothy H Wideman
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1B1
Pain 145:45-51. 2009..These findings highlight the importance of reductions in psychosocial risk factors in augmenting return-to-work outcomes. Implications for the fear-avoidance model and future research are discussed... - Secondary prevention of work disability: community-based psychosocial intervention for musculoskeletal disordersMichael J L Sullivan
Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Occup Rehabil 15:377-92. 2005..A second objective was to examine whether psychosocial risk reduction had an effect on the probability of return to work... - Psychological predictors of pain expression and activity intolerance in chronic pain patientsPascal Thibault
Department of Psychology, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Pain 139:47-54. 2008..Discussion also addresses how different types of interventions might be required to specifically target the sensory and behavioral dimensions of the pain system... - Investigating risk factors for chronicity: the importance of distinguishing between return-to-work status and self-report measures of disabilityNathalie Gauthier
Department of Psychology, , Quebec, Canada
J Occup Environ Med 48:312-8. 2006.... - Individual and relational correlates of pain-related empathic accuracy in spouses of chronic pain patientsNathalie Gauthier
Departement de Psychologie, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Clin J Pain 24:669-77. 2008.... - Recovery from depressive symptoms over the course of physical therapy: a prospective cohort study of individuals with work-related orthopaedic injuries and symptoms of depressionTimothy H Wideman
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Orthop Sports Phys Ther 42:957-67. 2012..Prospective cohort... 
Development of a cumulative psychosocial factor index for problematic recovery following work-related musculoskeletal injuriesTimothy H Wideman
T H Wideman, Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Phys Ther 92:58-68. 2012..The potential for a cumulative relationship between different elevated psychosocial factors and problematic recovery following physical therapy has not been fully explored...- Repetition-induced activity-related summation of pain in patients with fibromyalgiaDorothée Ialongo Lambin
Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
Pain 152:1424-30. 2011..Patients with fibromyalgia showed greater activity-related summation of pain than patients with chronic low back pain... - A psychosocial risk factor--targeted intervention for the prevention of chronic pain and disability following whiplash injuryMichael J L Sullivan
Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, CP 6128 Succ Centre Ville, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 3J7
Phys Ther 86:8-18. 2006.... - Validation of a French-Canadian version of the Pain Disability IndexNathalie Gauthier
Department of Psychology, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Pain Res Manag 13:327-33. 2008..To examine the psychometric properties of the Index de l'incapacité reliée à la douleur, a French-Canadian version of the Pain Disability Index (PDI)... - Path model of psychological antecedents to pain experience: experimental and clinical findingsMichael J L Sullivan
Departement de Psychologie, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Clin J Pain 20:164-73. 2004..Two studies are described addressing how anxiety, fear of pain, and catastrophizing impact on pain experience... - Dimensions of catastrophic thinking associated with pain experience and disability in patients with neuropathic pain conditionsMichael J L Sullivan
Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, C P 6128 Succ Centre Ville, Montreal, Que, Canada H3C 3J7
Pain 113:310-5. 2005..The findings are discussed in terms of mechanisms linking catastrophic thinking to pain experience. Treatment implications are addressed... - Attachment and pain outcomes in adolescents: the mediating role of pain catastrophizing and anxietyIsabelle Tremblay
Department of Psychology University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Pain 11:160-71. 2010..Attachment style and cognitive-affective factors might increase vulnerability for problematic pain outcomes in adolescents... - Catastrophizers with chronic pain display more pain behaviour when in a relationship with a low catastrophizing spouseNathalie Gauthier
Department of Psychology, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
Pain Res Manag 16:293-9. 2011..Patients' perceived solicitousness and punitive response from the spouse could not explain the group differences in pain behaviour. Theoretical and clinical implications of the findings are discussed... - Communicative dimensions of pain catastrophizing: social cueing effects on pain behaviour and copingMichael J L Sullivan
Departement de Psychologie, Universite de Montreal, C P 6128 Succ Centre Ville, H3C 3J7, Montreal, Que, Canada
Pain 107:220-6. 2004..Theoretical implications of the findings are discussed... - Differential predictors of the long-term levels of pain intensity, work disability, healthcare use, and medication use in a sample of workers' compensation claimantsTimothy H Wideman
Department of Psychology, McGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Pain 152:376-83. 2011..Unique relationships were found between pain catastrophizing and long-term pain intensity, between fear of movement and long-term work disability, and between pain self-efficacy and medication use at one-year follow-up... - The influence of communication goals and physical demands on different dimensions of pain behaviorMichael J L Sullivan
Department of Psychology, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Pain 125:270-7. 2006..Findings are discussed in terms of evolutionary and learning theory models of pain behavior. Clinical implications of the findings are addressed... - French translation of the Multidimensional Pain Inventory: L'inventaire multidimensionnel de la douleurSimon Laliberté
Centre de réadaptation Lucie Bruneau, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Universite de Montreal, and Hôpital du Sacré Coeur de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Pain Res Manag 13:497-505. 2008..This questionnaire has been translated and validated in multiple languages. However, there is no validated French-language version available for clinicians and researchers interested in evaluating people living with pain... - Directed attention alters the temporal activation patterns of back extensors during trunk flexion-extension in individuals with chronic low back painHeather L Butler
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Dr Penfield, Montreal, QC, Canada
Eur Spine J 19:1508-16. 2010..This suggests that sex-specific mechanisms may alter the neuromuscular control of the spine in CLBP patients for different pain levels... - Differential predictors of pain and disability in patients with whiplash injuriesMichael J L Sullivan
Department of Psychologie, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Pain Res Manag 7:68-74. 2002..Discussion focuses on the need to draw clearer distinctions between determinants of pain and disability, and directions for interventions aimed at minimizing disability following whiplash injury are suggested... - Patients who display protective pain behaviors are viewed as less likable, less dependable, and less likely to return to workMarc O Martel
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Pain 153:843-9. 2012..Implications of the present findings for clinical practice and the management of patients presenting with pain conditions are also discussed... - Psychologically based occupational rehabilitation: the Pain-Disability Prevention ProgramMichael J L Sullivan
Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, C P, 6128 Succ Centre Ville, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada
Clin J Pain 19:97-104. 2003..Workers' Compensation Board claimants with soft tissue injuries to the back, who were still off work 6 weeks after injury and showed evidence of at least one "yellow flag," were offered participation in the PDP Program... - Tendency to catastrophize somatic sensations: pain catastrophizing and anxiety sensitivity in predicting headacheDeanna N Drahovzal
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Cogn Behav Ther 35:226-35. 2006..Limitations and implications of this research, as well as recommendations for future research directions are discussed... - Pain Catastrophizing Scale for Francophone Adolescents: a preliminary validationIsabelle Tremblay
Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Pain Res Manag 13:19-24. 2008..However, due to the lack of a measure of pain catastrophizing adapted for francophone adolescents, little is known about the role of catastrophizing in this population... - Comparisons of catastrophizing, pain attitudes, and cold-pressor pain experience between Chinese and European Canadian young adultsAnnie Y Hsieh
Department of Psychology, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
J Pain 11:1187-94. 2010..The finding that pain catastrophizing mediated the ethnic difference in SF-MPQ-Affective scores indicated the importance of examining the role of catastrophizing in pain reports from Chinese and Euro-Canadian patients... - Toward a biopsychomotor conceptualization of pain: implications for research and interventionMichael J L Sullivan
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
Clin J Pain 24:281-90. 2008..The characterization of pain as an exclusively sensory (or experiential) phenomenon continues to dominate current conceptualizations of pain... - An exploratory study on the effect of pain interference and attentional interference on neuromuscular responses during rapid arm flexion movementsChristian Lariviere
Occupational Health and Safety Research Institute Robert Sauvé, Montreal, QC, Canada
Clin J Pain 29:265-75. 2013..This study examined the effect of pain interference and attentional interference on the anticipatory postural adjustments of trunk muscles in patients with nonspecific chronic low back pain... - Comparing the responsiveness of a brief, multidimensional risk screening tool for back pain to its unidimensional reference standards: The whole is greater than the sum of its partsTimothy H Wideman
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Electronic address
Pain 153:2182-91. 2012..These findings suggest that the STarT Back Tool, instead of multiple risk questionnaires, can be used to measure recovery from back pain. Implications for future research and clinical practice are discussed... - Psychosocial treatment techniques to augment the impact of physiotherapy interventions for low back painMichael J L Sullivan
Michael J L Sullivan, PhD Department of Psychology and School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
Physiother Can 62:180-9. 2010.... - Training the next generation of researchers in work disability prevention: the Canadian Work Disability Prevention CIHR Strategic Training ProgramPatrick Loisel
Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
J Occup Rehabil 15:273-84. 2005..Training programs attracting high-quality applicants and taking into account the complexity of this emerging field are urgently needed... - Pain catastrophizing and symptom severity during upper respiratory tract illnessKristina Devoulyte
Psychology Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4J1, Canada
Clin J Pain 19:125-33. 2003..The present study examined the relation of pain catastrophizing to the severity of upper respiratory tract illness... - Perceived cognitive deficits, emotional distress and disability following whiplash injuryMichael J L Sullivan
Dalhousie University Pain Research Centre, Halifax, Canada
Pain Res Manag 7:120-6. 2002.... - Parental emotional responses to their child's pain: the role of dispositional empathy and catastrophizing about their child's painLiesbet Goubert
Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
J Pain 9:272-9. 2008..The findings provide indications for the processes implied in parental helping behavior... - Catastrophizing: a risk factor for postsurgical painD Janet Pavlin
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Clin J Pain 21:83-90. 2005..This research was designed to test the hypothesis that presurgery "catastrophizing" would predict postsurgical pain and postsurgical analgesic consumption... - An experimental investigation of the relation between catastrophizing and activity intoleranceMichael J L Sullivan
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University Pain Research Centre, 5595 Fenwick Street, Suite 314, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4M2
Pain 100:47-53. 2002..Implications of these findings for understanding pain-related disability are addressed... - Prospective relation between catastrophizing and residual pain following knee arthroplasty: two-year follow-upMichael E Forsythe
Division of Orthopedic Surgery, Moncton Hospital, South East Regional Health Authority, Moncton, New Brunswick
Pain Res Manag 13:335-41. 2008..Pain is the primary indication for both primary and revision total knee arthroplasty (TKA); however, most arthroplasty outcome measures do not take pain into account... - Why women prefer epidural analgesia during childbirth: the role of beliefs about epidural analgesia and pain catastrophizingEva Van den Bussche
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Leuven Campus Kortrijk, Belgium
Eur J Pain 11:275-82. 2007..Pain catastrophizing was also strongly related to recommendations to use EA from others, in particular from the midwife and from the gynecologist. Results are discussed in terms of the social impact of pain catastrophizing... - Topical 2% amitriptyline and 1% ketamine in neuropathic pain syndromes: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trialMary E Lynch
Pain Management Unit, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Anesthesiology 103:140-6. 2005..A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled 3-week study evaluated the efficacy of topical 2% amitriptyline, 1% ketamine, and a combination of both in treating patients with neuropathic pain...