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Pain. 2007 Dec 05;132(3):233-236. doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2007.09.014. Epub 2007 Oct 24.

Worry and chronic pain: a misdirected problem solving model.

Pain

Christopher Eccleston, Geert Crombez

Affiliations

  1. Pain Management Unit, School for Health, The University of Bath & The Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, NHS Trust, UK Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

PMID: 17961924 DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2007.09.014

[No abstract available.]

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