Disability is an important outcome from a clinical and public health perspective. However, it
is unclear how disability develops in people with low back pain or neck pain. More …

Objective: The fear-avoidance (FA) model of chronic pain describes how individuals
experiencing acute pain may become trapped into a vicious circle of chronic disability and …

It is widely acknowledged that pain is a universal experience that affects human beings
across the life span, serving an important protective function. Typical protective behaviors …

Objective: The purpose of this narrative review is to analyze the available literature
concerning central sensitization and altered central pain processing in patients with chronic …

Pain is considered a hardwired signal of bodily disturbance belonging to a basic
motivational system that urges the individual to act and to restore the body's integrity, rather …

The current study examined the Fear Avoidance (FA) model of chronic pain in pediatric
chronic pain patients. Multiple structural equation models were tested in the current study …

Nearly 20 years ago, the Fear Avoidance Model (FAM) was advanced to explain the
development and persistence of disabling back pain. The model has since inspired …

A novel pain-relevant fear conditioning paradigm that demonstrates the involvement of
associative learning in the acquisition of fear of movement-related pain. ABSTRACT Current …

Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience urging the individual to take action
to restore the integrity of the body. The transition from a common episode of acute pain to a …

The aim of the present study was to analyze differences between men and women in the
experience of chronic pain. Resilience, fear-avoidance of pain, and pain acceptance were …