A system for evaluating and treating chronic back disability.

Abstract

Five methods of personality assessment are evaluated to provide guidance for the psychological treatment of patients with chronic back pain. Patient pain drawings, pentothal pain studies, stress score index, psychological testing with the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and response to treatment challenge are used as measurements for evaluation. This evaluation gives the treating staff guidelines for individual treatment programs utilizing operant conditioning techniques. Using this approach, three fourths of the severely disabled patients seen have been successfully treated.

• Authors: V Mooney, D Cairns, J Robertson
• Journal: The Western journal of medicine (West J Med) Vol. 124 Issue 5 Pg. 370-6 (May 1976) ISSN: 0093-0415 [Print] United States
• PMID: 132014 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Topics

• Back Pain (diagnosis, therapy)
• Chronic Disease
• Humans
• Methods
• Personality Assessment
• Psychotherapy