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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - APA Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research
  • 1989 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Robert J. Gatchel is affiliated with The University of Texas at Arlington in the United States. Their scholarly work primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on subfields including Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cell Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their research addresses topics such as musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, myofascial pain diagnosis and treatment, pain management and placebo effect, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome research, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment and cognitive processes, pediatric pain management techniques, and psychosomatic disorders and their treatments.

Recent publications by Robert J. Gatchel include:

  • Central Sensitization in Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Disorders in Different Populations: A Cross-Sectional Study, 2020, Pain Medicine
  • Establishing Central Sensitization-Related Symptom Severity Subgroups: A Multicountry Study Using the Central Sensitization Inventory, 2020, Pain Medicine
  • Cross-cultural adaptation and validity of the Spanish fear-avoidance components scale and clinical implications in primary care, 2020, BMC Family Practice
  • Osteopathic Medical Care With and Without Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: A Pain Registry-Based Study, 2020, Journal of Osteopathic Medicine
  • The Biopsychosocial Model, 2020, The Wiley Encyclopedia of Health Psychology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Robert J. Gatchel are:

  • Cristina Roldán-Jiménez
  • Randy Neblett
  • Antonio Cuesta-Vargas
  • Nancy D. Kishino
  • David Pérez-Cruzado

Their work has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, including:

  • Pain Medicine
  • The Wiley Encyclopedia of Health Psychology
  • The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences
  • BMC Family Practice
  • Journal of Osteopathic Medicine

Awards received by Robert J. Gatchel include the APA Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research in 2004 and the designation of Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 1989.

Best Publications

  • The Biopsychosocial Approach to Chronic Pain: Scientific Advances and Future Directions

    Robert J. Gatchel;Yuan Bo Peng;Madelon L. Peters;Perry N. Fuchs

  • Chronic pain and psychopathology: research findings and theoretical considerations.

    Jeffrey Dersh;Peter B. Polatin;Robert J. Gatchel

  • Interdisciplinary chronic pain management

    Robert Joseph Gatchel;Donald D. McGeary;Cindy A. McGeary;Ben Lippe

  • The dominant role of psychosocial risk factors in the development of chronic low back pain disability

    Robert J. Gatchel;Peter B. Polatin;Tom G. Mayer

  • Psychiatric illness and chronic low-back pain: The mind and the spine-which goes first?

    Peter B. Polatin;Regina K. Kinney;Robert Joseph Gatchel;Erin Lillo

  • The development and psychometric validation of the central sensitization inventory.

    Tom G. Mayer;Randy Neblett;Howard Cohen;Krista J. Howard

  • A prospective two-year study of functional restoration in industrial low back injury. An objective assessment procedure

    Tom G. Mayer;Robert J. Gatchel;Holly Mayer;Nancy D. Kishino

  • Objective assessment of spine function following industrial injury. A prospective study with comparison group and one-year follow-up.

    Tom G. Mayer;Robert J. Gatchel;Nancy Kishino;Janice Keeley

  • Evidence-Based Scientific Data Documenting the Treatment and Cost-Effectiveness of Comprehensive Pain Programs for Chronic Nonmalignant Pain

    Robert J. Gatchel;Akiko Okifuji

  • An Introduction to Health Psychology

    Robert J. Gatchel;Andrew Baum;David S. Krantz;Jerome E. Singer

  • The Central Sensitization Inventory (CSI): Establishing Clinically Significant Values for Identifying Central Sensitivity Syndromes in an Outpatient Chronic Pain Sample

    Randy Neblett;Howard Cohen;YunHee Choi;Meredith M. Hartzell

  • Emotional, behavioral, and physiological effects of chronic stress at Three Mile Island.

    Andrew Baum;Robert J. Gatchel;Marc A. Schaeffer

  • Comorbidity of Chronic Pain and Mental Health Disorders: The Biopsychosocial Perspective.

    Robert J. Gatchel

  • Predicting opioid misuse by chronic pain patients: a systematic review and literature synthesis.

    Dennis C. Turk;Kimberly S. Swanson;Robert J. Gatchel

  • Comparison of CT scan muscle measurements and isokinetic trunk strength in postoperative patients.

    Tom G. Mayer;Heikki Vanharanta;Robert Joseph Gatchel;Vert Mooney

  • Psychosocial factors in pain: Critical perspectives.

    Robert J. Gatchel;Dennis C. Turk

  • Mediating influences of social support on stress at Three Mile Island.

    Raymond Fleming;Andrew Baum;Martha M. Gisriel;Robert J. Gatchel

  • Relationship between early opioid prescribing for acute occupational low back pain and disability duration, medical costs, subsequent surgery and late opioid use.

    Barbara S. Webster;Santosh K. Verma;Robert Joseph Gatchel

  • Predicting outcome of chronic back pain using clinical predictors of psychopathology: a prospective analysis.

    Robert Joseph Gatchel;Peter B. Polatin;Regina K. Kinney

  • Functional Restoration for Spinal Disorders: The Sports Medicine Approach

    Tom G. Mayer;Robert J. Gatchel

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward Ellis
Edward Ellis The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Andrew Baum
Andrew Baum University of Pittsburgh
Alan L. Peterson
Alan L. Peterson The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Dennis C. Turk
Dennis C. Turk University of Washington
Peter Lang
Peter Lang University of Bern
Peter H. Buschang
Peter H. Buschang Texas A&M University
Fillia Makedon
Fillia Makedon The University of Texas at Arlington
Paul B. Paulus
Paul B. Paulus The University of Texas at Arlington
Roger Chou
Roger Chou Oregon Health & Science University
Che Hin Chetwyn Chan
Che Hin Chetwyn Chan Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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