Deanna Rumble

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Assistant Professor

University of Central Arkansas

Also affiliated: University of Alabama (2021); University of Alabama at Birmingham (2013–2024); Conway School of Landscape Design (2022–2025); Samford University (2021); University of South Alabama (2013)

Faculty Researcher

9 h-index 38 pubs 376 cited

Research Areas

Biomedical Subjects

Links

ORCID Lab Website

OverviewAI-generated summary

Deanna Rumble's research investigates chronic pain, with a particular focus on low back pain in adults. Her work examines various factors influencing pain perception and severity, including temporal summation of mechanical pain, movement-evoked pain, and pain medication usage. Rumble also studies the impact of sociodemographic factors, such as neighborhood socioeconomic status and racial differences, on chronic pain experiences and health outcomes. Her publications explore the relationship between environmental risk factors, like deprivation, and physiological changes, such as temporal lobe thickness. Additionally, she has investigated the potential of immersive interactive virtual walking as a treatment for neuropathic pain following spinal cord injury, exploring its feasibility, clinical efficacy, and underlying cortical mechanisms.

Metrics

h-index: 9
Publications: 38
Citations: 376

Selected Publications

Factors associated with the use of combined nutritional complementary and alternative medicine among southern US older adults: results from the study of aging II (2025)

Frontiers in Nutrition 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
The potential impact of exercise on affect and neuroinflammation in older adults living with fibromyalgia: a scoping review (2025)

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
Pain-Related Injustice Appraisals, Sickle Cell Stigma, and Racialized Discrimination in the Youth with Sickle Cell Disease: A Preliminary Investigation (2024)

Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Weight, height, waist circumference: association with knee osteoarthritis findings from the osteoarthritis initiative (2024)

PAIN Reports 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
Greater socioenvironmental risk factors and higher chronic pain stage are associated with thinner bilateral temporal lobes (2023)

Brain and Behavior 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
Cortical Mechanisms Underlying Immersive Interactive Virtual Walking Treatment for Amelioration of Neuropathic Pain after Spinal Cord Injury: Findings from a Preliminary Investigation of Thalamic Inhibitory Function (2023)

Journal of Clinical Medicine 13 citations DOI OpenAlex
Sociodemographic Differences in Pain Medication Usage and Healthcare Provider Utilization Among Adults With Chronic Low Back Pain (2022)

Frontiers in Pain Research 26 citations DOI OpenAlex