Identifying psychosocial variables in patients with acute work-related low back pain: The importance of fear-avoidance beliefs

Physical Therapy

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 973-983

  Fritz, Julie M ^a   George, Steven Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Disability; Fear avoidance beliefs; Likelihood ratio; Low back pain; Work related low back pain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CALCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0036791134     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ptj/82.10.973     Document Type: Article

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