An Operant Conditioning Method for Managing Chronic Pain
- 1 May 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Postgraduate Medicine
- Vol. 53 (6), 123-128
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00325481.1973.11713462
Abstract
Pain behavior may be disproportionate to the pathologic stimulus or persist after the stimulus disappears. New technics based on principles of operant conditioning are being used in such cases, with encouraging results.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- An application of behavior modification technique to a problem of chronic painBehaviour Research and Therapy, 1968