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Monitor on Psychology
Volume 33, No. 4 April 2002
 
New hope for pain relief

Overcoming barriers to pain relief
Psychologists are among those knocking down the obstacles to successful pain treatment.

Hope on the horizon
Behavioral researchers are uncovering promising new ways to treat chronic pain.

Giving a voice to cognitively impaired children
Psychologists have recently begun to develop reliable ways to assess pain in children with cognitive impairment, laying the groundwork for better pain-management practices.

Embracing the mind-body approach
Mark B. Weisberg co-owns a multidisciplinary clinic specializing in pain.

Preparing patients for spinal surgery
William Deardorff offers his expertise to both patients and surgeons.

Easing migraine pain
Stacey A. Williams uses biofeedback to treat adolescents in pain.

Burn patients find relief in a virtual world
Recent research indicates that virtual reality helps ease pain during burn wound treatment.

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