Influence of Pain Intensity and Pain Catastrophizing on Conditioned Pain Modulation in Elderly People with and without Chronic Pain
Elderly people with chronic musculoskeletal pain exhibited impaired CPM activation as compared with adults without chronic pain Thus, CPM activation was associated with the intensity of pain, and, in a lesser extent with pain catastrophizing, but not with anxiety/depressive levels and executive functions.
Authors
- Sílvia Lanziotti Azevedo da Silva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2323-2029)
- Juan C. Pacho-Hernández (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3197-453X)
- Francisco G. Fernández-Palacios
- Ricardo Filipe da Silva Pocinho
- Cristina Gómez
- Diogo Mendes
Institutions
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid (ES)
- Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (ES)
- Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administração (PT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Clinical Journal of Pain
- Published
- 2026-02-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/ajp.0000000000001366
- Primary Topic
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00