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A new type of psychotherapy appears effective at treating chronic painVeterans who underwent emotional awareness and expression therapy had less painIt outperformed cognitive behavioral therapy
FRIDAY, June 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A new form of psychotherapy appears to work even better at treating chronic pain in older adults than gold-standard cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a new study finds.
U.S. veterans who received emotional awareness and expression therapy (EAET) experienced a longer and more significant reduction in chronic pain than those who underwent CBT, researchers reported June 13 in the journal JAMA Network Open.
About 63% of veterans who underwent EAET reported at least a 30% reduction in pain, which is considered clinically significant, results show. By comparison, only 17% of veterans who got CBT achieved that sort of pain relief.
Further, pain reduction was sustained among 41% of EAET participants six months after treatment, compared to 14% of CBT patients.
EAET patients also …
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