Study Design Cross sectional. Objectives To measure fear of movement/reinjury levels and
determine the association with function at different timeframes during anterior cruciate …

Background Patients with fibromyalgia often feel disabled in the performance of daily
activities. Psychological factors seem to play a pronounced disabling role in fibromyalgia …

OBJECTIVE: In patients with chronic pain, catastrophizing is a significant determinant of self-
rated pain intensity and disability. The Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) was developed to …

The experience of pain is believed to be influenced by social, cultural, environmental,
psychological, and genetic factors. Despite this assertion, few studies have included …

BACKGROUND: Pain-related fear is related to disability in persistent pain conditions.
Exposure treatment has been reported to be of great benefit in replicated single case …

Cross sectional study, performed in an outpatient university based pain rehabilitation setting.
To analyze the relationship between psychological factors (psychosocial distress …

Several treatment principles for the reduction of chronic low back pain associated disability
have been postulated. To examine whether a combination of a physical training and an …

The objective of this study was to investigate the test—retest stability of the Pain
Catastrophizing Scale (PCS), the Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK) and their subscales …

Study Design. Translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and validation of a self-report
questionnaire. Objective. To perform a translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the …

For patients with acute post-traumatic neck pain (PTNP), pain-related fear has been
identified as a potential predictor of chronic disability. If such is the case, fear reduction …