Do pain expectancies cause pain in chronic low back patients? A clinical investigation

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 34, Issue 11-12, 1996, Pages 919-925

  Crombez, Geert ^a,c   Vervaet, Leen ^b   Baeyens, Frank ^a   Lysens, Roland ^b   Eelen, Paul ^a  

^a Centrum voor Leerpsychologie en Gedragstherapie   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; EXPECTANCY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; PAIN; TORQUE;

EID: 0030298532     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(96)00049-6     Document Type: Article

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