The fear avoidance model disentangled: Improving the clinical utility of the fear avoidance model

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 739-746

  Pincus, Tamar ^a   Smeets, Rob J E M ^b   Simmonds, Maureen J ^c   Sullivan, Michael J L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

fear avoidance; pain; subgrouping

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEAR AVOIDANCE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 77958473411     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: 15365409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AJP.0b013e3181f15d45     Document Type: Review

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