Physical activity and exercise for chronic pain in adults: an overview of Cochrane Reviews

Geneen, Louise; Moore, Andrew; Clarke, Clare; Martin, Denis; Colvin, Lesley; H. Smith, Blair

doi:10.1002/14651858.cd011279.pub2

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Physical activity and exercise for chronic pain in adults: an overview of Cochrane Reviews

Published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews • Jan 14, 2017

Authors:

Louise Geneen

Andrew Moore

Clare Clarke

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Chronic pain is defined as pain lasting beyond normal tissue healing time, generally taken to be 12 weeks. It contributes to disability, anxiety, depression, sleep disturbances, poor quality of life, and healthcare costs. Chronic pain has a weighted mean prevalence in adults of 20%.For m...

Subject

Systematic review

Medicine

Chronic pain

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