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Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy for Chronic Pain: Rationale, Principles and Techniques, Evidence, and Critical Review

Staying active and avoiding prolonged rest helps reduce low back pain and improves recovery, supporting movement as a key part of effective pain management.

Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Patients With Chronic Back Pain: 5-Year Follow-Up of a Randomized Clinical Trial

Exercise helps reduce low back pain and improve function, especially when done consistently, supporting movement as a key part of long term pain management.

Effect of Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Patients With Chronic Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Changing how you think about chronic back pain can significantly reduce pain. Participants receiving Pain Reprocessing Therapy reported greater pain relief than placebo or usual care, with benefits lasting up to a year.

Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity

Frequent task switching reduces productivity because of the time and mental effort needed to refocus, even when people feel they are multitasking well.

The cost of interrupted work: More speed and stress

This paper shows that frequent interruptions significantly slow task performance and increase errors because people take time to resume their original focus after being distracted.

Why is it so hard to do my work? The challenge of attention residue when switching between work tasks

This article explains why switching between work tasks is hard, showing that people’s attention often sticks to unfinished tasks and reduces performance when they try to move to a new one.