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Distraction - pain management method

Known as: Distraction, Distraction and Attention 
A method of pain control used primarily in pediatrics that combines distracting the patient's attention away from the painful procedure or… Expand
National Institutes of Health

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Nonpharmacologic intervention for pain:Type:Pt:^Patient:Nom

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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Mindfulness Training Improves Working Memory Capacity and GRE Performance While Reducing Mind Wandering
Given that the ability to attend to a task without distraction underlies performance in a wide variety of contexts, training one… Expand
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
A randomized controlled trial of mindfulness meditation versus relaxation training: Effects on distress, positive states of mind, rumination, and distraction
Background: Although mindfulness meditation interventions have recently shown benefits for reducing stress in various populations… Expand
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Driver distraction: the effects of concurrent in-vehicle tasks, road environment complexity and age on driving performance.
This paper presents the findings of a simulator study that examined the effects of distraction upon driving performance for… Expand
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Distraction modulates connectivity of the cingulo-frontal cortex and the midbrain during pain—an fMRI analysis
&NA; Neuroimaging studies with positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have… Expand
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Imaging how attention modulates pain in humans using functional MRI.
Current clinical and experimental literature strongly supports the phenomenon of reduced pain perception whilst attention is… Expand
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Does Venting Anger Feed or Extinguish the Flame? Catharsis, Rumination, Distraction, Anger, and Aggressive Responding
Does distraction or rumination work better to diffuse anger? Catharsis theory predicts that rumination works best, but empirical… Expand
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Regulating responses to anger: effects of rumination and distraction on angry mood.
Previous research has found that self-focused rumination maintains or increases depressed mood, whereas distraction decreases… Expand
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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Lengthening the human mandible by gradual distraction.
Lengthening of the mandible by gradual distraction was performed on four young patients (average age 78 months). The amount of… Expand
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Review
1990
Review
1990
Clinical application of the tension-stress effect for limb lengthening.
  • G. Ilizarov
  • Clinical orthopaedics and related research
  • 1990
    • Corpus ID: 46715498
For 40 years, the author has been developing a system of orthopedics, traumatology, and limb lengthening using a circular… Expand
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Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
The tension-stress effect on the genesis and growth of tissues: Part II. The influence of the rate and frequency of distraction.
  • G. Ilizarov
  • Clinical orthopaedics and related research
  • 1989
    • Corpus ID: 30270822
To assess the influence of both the rate and the frequency of distraction on osteogenesis during limb elongation, a canine tibia… Expand
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