September 22, 2016Open Access

Mindfulness Meditation for Chronic Pain: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

LHLara HiltonUniversity of Southern California SHSusanne HempelApple (Israel)BEBrett EwingCedars-Sinai Medical Center

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Abstract

While mindfulness meditation improves pain and depression symptoms and quality of life, additional well-designed, rigorous, and large-scale RCTs are needed to decisively provide estimates of the efficacy of mindfulness meditation for chronic pain.

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