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Pathophysiological Consideration
A systematic review (Linton 2000) showed that stress, distress and anxiety
are significant factors in the development of neck and back pain and
another study demonstrated a strong correlation between a diagnosis of
anxiety and chronic widespread pain. Recent brain imaging studies show
that emotions have a powerful effect on modulating pain – when
experimental subjects were shown pictures that provoked different
emotional states, this caused corresponding changes in relevant structures
involved in pain processing in the brain (Roy 2009).