TY - JOUR T1 - Behavioral techniques in pain modification JF - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine JO - Cleve Clin J Med SP - 501 LP - 508 VL - 56 IS - 5 AU - Michael G. Mckee Y1 - 1989/07/01 UR - http://www.ccjm.org/content/56/5/501.abstract N2 - Psychological variables and behavioral techniques influence pain behavior in chronic benign pain syndromes and in cancer pain. Such techniques affect patterns of thought, feeling, and action related to the experience and expression of pain. They demonstrably contribute to the therapy of patients with chronic benign pain and hold promise for increasing the quality of life for cancer patients. ER -