The lived experience of pain-related fear in people with chronic low back pain

Low back pain (LBP) is a leading cause of disability worldwide. One of the strongest predictors of LBP disability is pain-related fear. The fear avoidance model (FAM) describes how the belief that pain signals damage to the spine can lead individuals into a cycle of fear and avoidance, which in turn...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bunzli, S., Smith, Anne, Schütze, R., O'Sullivan, P.
Format: Book Chapter
Published: 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53644