The [fear-avoidance] scale demonstrated strong predictive power with high sensitivity to the harmful condition and was associated with subcortical fear processing regions (amygdala, thalamus ...

This is sometimes called the “ fear-avoidance model.” Patients who fear physical pain become hypervigilant and make efforts to elude it.

Fear Avoidance Model Applied to Pediatric Chronic Pain Cases In another Journal of Pain study, researchers at Children's Hospital in Boston conducted the first examination of the fear-avoidance ...

Pain is more than a physical signal — it also carries emotional weight that shapes our response and memory of discomfort.

When caring for older adults with non-cancer chronic pain, primary care providers should consider psychological factors like depression and fear avoidance, according to a presentation.At the ...

Learn more on the association between psychological and social factors at work and fear avoidance beliefs in neck and back pain patients.

The treatment of pain and the avoidance of pain are two very different things. To treat pain effectively requires losing your fear of it and your desire to expunge it as a result.

LAS VEGAS — Recognition of the fear avoidance model, which is how one develops chronic pain through avoidant behavior, can help clinicians treat pain in patients, according to a presenter at ...