Assessing pain and pain-related fear in acute low back pain: What is the smallest detectable change?

International Journal of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 242-248

  Ostelo, Raymond W J G ^a   Swinkels Meewisse, Ilse J C M ^b   Knol, Dirk L ^a,b   Vlaeyen, Johan W S ^b   De Vet, Henrica C W ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acute low back pain; Fear avoidance; Pain related fear; Psychometric properties; Smallest detectable change

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 37049027356     PISSN: 10705503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03002999     Document Type: Article

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