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Overview

Tamar Pincus is affiliated with Royal Holloway University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Medicine, with significant contributions across subfields including Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their body of work extensively addresses topics related to pain management and rehabilitation. Main research interests include:

  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Migraine and Headache Studies
  • Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
  • Clinical practice guidelines implementation

Among Tamar Pincus's recent papers are:

  • "Antidepressants for pain management in adults with chronic pain: a network meta-analysis," published in 2023 by Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • "Self-management for chronic widespread pain including fibromyalgia: A systematic review and meta-analysis," published in 2021 by PLoS ONE
  • "Diagnostic uncertainty in pediatric chronic pain: nature, prevalence, and consequences," published in 2020 by PAIN Reports
  • "The establishment, maintenance, and adaptation of high- and low-impact chronic pain: a framework for biopsychosocial pain research," published in 2023 by Pain
  • "Antidepressants for pain management in adults with chronic pain: a network meta-analysis," published in 2024 by Health Technology Assessment

Frequent collaborators include Noa Ben Ami, Martin Underwood, Christian Mallen, Hollie Birkinshaw, and Harbinder Sandhu.

Pincus's research findings have appeared regularly in several publication venues with multiple contributions to:

  • BMJ Open
  • Musculoskeletal Science and Practice
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Pain
  • BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Best Publications

  • A systematic review of psychological factors as predictors of chronicity/disability in prospective cohorts of low back pain.

    Tamar Pincus;A. Kim Burton;Steven Vogel;Andy P. Field

  • Cognitive-processing bias in chronic pain: a review and integration.

    Tamar Pincus;Stephen Morley

  • A systematic review and meta-synthesis of the impact of low back pain on people’s lives

    Robert J. Froud;Robert J. Froud;Sue Patterson;Sandra Eldridge;Clive Seale

  • Fear avoidance and prognosis in back pain: a systematic review and synthesis of current evidence.

    Tamar Pincus;Steven Vogel;A. Kim Burton;Rita Santos

  • Twenty-five years with the biopsychosocial model of low back pain-is it time to celebrate? A report from the twelfth international forum for primary care research on low back pain.

    Tamar Pincus;Peter Kent;Gert Bronfort;Gert Bronfort;Patrick Loisel;Patrick Loisel

  • The Fear Avoidance Model Disentangled: Improving the Clinical Utility of the Fear Avoidance Model

    Tamar Pincus;Rob J.E.M. Smeets;Maureen J. Simmonds;Michael J.L. Sullivan

  • PREVALENCE OF SELF-REPORTED DEPRESSION IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

    T. Pincus;J. Griffith;S. Pearce;D. Isenberg

  • Cognitive and affective reassurance and patient outcomes in primary care: A systematic review

    Tamar Pincus;Nicola Holt;Steven Vogel;Martin Underwood

  • Chronic musculoskeletal pain rarely presents in a single body site: results from a UK population study

    D. Carnes;S. Parsons;D. Ashby;A. Breen

  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy and psychosocial factors in low back pain: directions for the future.

    Tamar Pincus;Johan W S Vlaeyen;Nick A S Kendall;Michael R Von Korff

  • Prevalence and comparative troublesomeness by age of musculoskeletal pain in different body locations

    Suzanne Parsons;A. Breen;N. E. Foster;L. Letley

  • Individual recovery expectations and prognosis of outcomes in non‐specific low back pain: prognostic factor review

    Jill A Hayden;Maria N Wilson;Richard D Riley;Ross Iles

  • Effective delivery styles and content for self-management interventions for chronic musculoskeletal pain: a systematic literature review.

    Dawn Carnes;Kate E. Homer;Clare L. Miles;Tamar Pincus

  • Can we identify how programmes aimed at promoting self-management in musculoskeletal pain work and who benefits? A systematic review of sub-group analysis within RCTs

    Clare L Miles;Tamar Pincus;Dawn Carnes;Kate E Homer

  • Methodological criteria for the assessment of moderators in systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials: a consensus study

    Tamar Pincus;Clare Miles;Robert J. Froud;Martin Underwood

  • Psychological factors and treatment opportunities in low back pain

    Tamar Pincus;Lance M. McCracken

  • Measuring Pain Self-efficacy

    Clare L. Miles;Tamar Pincus;Dawn Carnes;Stephanie J.C. Taylor

  • Do chronic pain patients 'Stroop' on pain stimuli ?

    Tamar Pincus;Lindsay Fraser;Shirley Pearce

  • Non-pharmacological self-management for people living with migraine or tension-type headache: a systematic review including analysis of intervention components

    Katrin Probyn;Hannah Bowers;Dipesh Mistry;Fiona Caldwell

  • A review and proposal for a core set of factors for prospective cohorts in low back pain: A consensus statement

    Tamar Pincus;Rita Santos;Alan C. Breen;A. Kim Burton

  • Models and measurements of depression in chronic pain

    Tamar Pincus;Amanda Williams

  • The influence of patients' and primary care practitioners' beliefs and expectations about chronic musculoskeletal pain on the process of care: a systematic review of qualitative studies.

    Suzanne Parsons;Geoffrey Harding;Alan Breen;Nadine Foster

Frequent Co-Authors

Andy P. Field
Andy P. Field University of Sussex
Stephen Morley
Stephen Morley University of Leeds
Melanie Noel
Melanie Noel University of Calgary
Lance M. McCracken
Lance M. McCracken Uppsala University
Keith Owen Yeates
Keith Owen Yeates University of Calgary

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