Fear and avoidance of movement in people with chronic pain: Psychometric properties of the 11-item Tampa scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK-11)

Physiotherapy Canada

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 235-241

  Hapidou, Eleni G ^a,b   O'Brien, Mary Ann ^b,c   Pierrynowski, Michael Raymond ^b   de las Heras, Eugenio ^b   Patel, Madri ^b   Patla, Tasneem ^b  

^a HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Pain management; Reproducibility of results; Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864247454     PISSN: 03000508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/ptc.2011-10     Document Type: Article

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