Pain Ctr Research Research Research is an integral part of any successful pain management program. Such research helps Pain Center clinicians stay in the forefront of modern scientific approaches to pain management.
Research also helps keep track of Pain Center operations and functioning.
The Pain Center has conducted research on a wide variety of scientific topics including male-female differences in presentation of chronic pain, factors that predict unsuccessful completion of a chronic pain treatment program and strategies for detox of patients from opioid medications. These studies have been presented at major national conferences and published in leading professional journals. In addition, the Pain Center provides a site for rigorously conducted student doctoral research projects. Two dissertation research projects have been carried out at the Pain Center. The relationship between illness behavior and self concept explores the role of self concept in pain.