Paul Wrigley is a Specialist Pain Medicine Physician and the Supervisor of Pain Medicine Training for the Faculty of Pain Medicine (Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetist) at the Michael J Cousins Pain Management Research Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital, Northern Sydney Local Health District.
He is a Conjoint Associate Professor, Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney and maintains an active translational clinical research program in pain management. He serves on local and national committees concerned with pain education and delivery of service. His government advocacy has led to greater community access to pain treatment.
Oguchi M, Nicholas MK, Asghari A, Sanders D, Wrigley PJ. Psychologically based interventions for adults with chronic neuropathic pain: a scoping review. Pain Med. 2024.
This review aimed to identify the type of psychologically based interventions studied for adults with chronic neuropathic pain. Almost half to two-thirds of the studies reported significant improvements in pain, disability, or distress, which suggests that psychologically based interventions are potentially beneficial for adults with chronic neuropathic pain.
Jones CMP, Day RO, Koes BW, Latimer J, Maher CG, McLachlan AJ, Billot L, Shan S, Lin CWC, McLachlan H, Webb M, Hamilton M, Ahedi H, Barber A, Mak W, Mathieson S, Petrova V, Bompoint S, Shan S, Wrigley P, Yang SC. Opioid analgesia for acute low back pain and neck pain (the OPAL trial): a randomised placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2023;402(10398):304-12.
This study recommended opioids should not be used in acute non-specific low back pain or neck pain given no significant difference was found in pain severity compared with placebo
Hayashi K, Ikemoto T, Shiro Y, Arai YC, Marcuzzi A, Costa D, Wrigley PJ. A systematic review of the variation in Pain Catastrophizing Scale reference scores based on language version and country in patients with chronic primary (non-specific) pain. Pain Ther. 2022;11(3):753-69.
This systematic review investigated the variation of reference scores for the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) between language versions and countries in patients with chronic primary pain. We found that given the variation of PCS scores in different contexts, a universal comparison PCS reference or cut-off score should not be used to compare different cultures even when the sample has the same pain condition
Nicholas MK, Asghari A, Sharpe L, Beeston L, Brooker C, Glare P, Martin R, Molloy A, Wrigley PJ. Reducing the use of opioids by patients with chronic pain: an effectiveness study with long-term follow-up. Pain. 2020;161(3):509-19.
The results of this paper supported training in pain self-management as a viable alternative to long-term opioid use by patients with chronic pain. PAIN is the highest impact pain journal.
Wrigley PJ, Siddall PJ. The clinical evaluation of pain. In: Tsui SL, Chen PP, Ng KFJ, editors. Pain medicine: a multidisciplinary approach. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press; 2010. p. 31-49.
This invited book chapter outlined the assessment of a person with pain.
