Pain is essential for avoidance of tissue damage and for promotion of healing.
Notwithstanding the survival value, pain brings about emotional suffering reflected in fear …

Two studies are reported that tested the fear-avoidance (FA) model using path analytic
techniques. In study 1, 429 employees with back pain at baseline and back pain at …

Previous mass media campaigns have aimed to influence how people manage back pain,
with mixed success. Campaigns should target beliefs which are related to the behaviours …

Objective: Our aim was to establish whether Exposure, a specialized tailored treatment for
chronic low back pain, has any advantages over cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) among …

Acute pain informs the individual that there is an imminent threat of body damage, and is
associated with the urge to escape and avoid. Fear learning takes place when neutral …

Current fear-avoidance models consider pain-related fear as a crucial factor in the
development of chronic pain. However, pain-related fear often occurs in a context of …

Compared to the field of anxiety research, the use of fear conditioning paradigms for
studying chronic pain is relatively novel. Developments in identifying the neural correlates of …

According to fear-avoidance models, a catastrophic interpretation of a painful experience
may give rise to pain-related fear and avoidance, leading to the development and …

There is increasing evidence that pain-related fear influences the development and
maintenance of pain disability, presumably mediated through the fear-related avoidance of …

Objective: Chronic back pain (CBP) is responsible for considerable suffering across the
world and is frequently associated with decreased functional capacity, quality of life, and …