A Systematic Review of Psychological Factors as Predictors of Chronicity/Disability in Prospective Cohorts of Low Back Pain

By T. Pincus, Steven Vogel. Spine, 2002

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Body Awareness: Construct and Self-Report Measures (2009, background): “marker for hypochondriasis, anxiety and somatization [3], all strongly associated with unfavorable clinical outcomes such as the trajectory of pain [4].”
Clinical Guidelines for the Use of Chronic Opioid Therapy in Chronic Noncancer Pain (2009, neutral): “The medical home model does not necessarily require the primary care clinician to prescribe and monitor COT.”
The role of psychosocial processes in the development and maintenance of chronic pain disorders (2016, positive): “the importance of a broad array of psychosocial factors in shaping pain-related experiences and outcomes across numerous pain conditions.(173,182,238) A good deal of this work has involved studies of back pain.”
The Fear-Avoidance Model of Musculoskeletal Pain: Current State of Scientific Evidence (2006, background): “Fearful people may be more inclined to misinterpret ambiguous physical sensations as threatening or painful, and therefore have an increased likelihood to experience pain (Arntz and Claassens, 2004; Pincus and Morley, 2001).”