Fear of movement/(re)injury predicting chronic disabling low back pain: A prospective inception cohort study

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Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 658-664

  Swinkels Meewisse, Ilse E J ^a,b   Roelofs, Jeffrey ^a   Schouten, Erik G W ^a   Verbeek, André L M ^a   Oostendorp, Rob A B ^a   Vlaeyen, Johan W S ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cohort study; Disability; Low back pain; Pain related fear; Prognostic; Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; FEAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INJURY; KINESIOLOGY; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHOBIA; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BACK INJURIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; FEAR; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE;

EID: 33645102238     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000203709.65384.9d     Document Type: Article

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