… reduction as it is in fear reduction, was raised. The aim of this paper is to present a model
of exaggerated pain perception, based on the concept of fear of pain which is both consistent …

… Model of exaggerated pain perception and may therefore influence the adoption of an …
401-408) postulated a model of exaggerated pain perception termed the ‘Fear-Avoidance Model’. …

… support for the Fear Avoidance Model of Exaggerated Pain Perception and an expression of
… effects of past experience of pain and their relationship to present chronic pain experience. …

… Early fear-avoidance models The term fear-avoidance was first used in the context of pain …
(1983) in an article entitled “Outline of a fear-avoidance model of exaggerated pain perception…

… attention may be an important feature in pain perception as predicted by the model. …
fear-avoidance model proposes that fear avoidance beliefs may come into play when an acute pain …

… exaggerated perception of pain. Kori et al 11 stressed the phobic nature of fear of pain and
avoidance… from ‘kinesiophobia,’ an irrational and debilitating fear of (re)injury and movement. …

… underpinnings of the fear-avoidance model and the existing … Pain catastrophizing is
considered an exaggerated negative … leg to the point of pain tolerance. They found that anxious …

… presence of back pain [31]. Most people have modest FABs, but a fair sector of the population
is quite fear avoidant. … Outline of a fear-avoidance model of exaggerated pain perception …

… A fear-avoidance model of exaggerated pain perception, which has clear treatment
implications, is described, and it is shown how this model may be modified to offer a framework for …

… evidence, we propose an amendment to the fearavoidance model that describes the role of
physiological arousal in chronic pain and related disability. Specifically, we propose that the …