Associations between pain-related fear and lumbar movement variability during activities of daily living in patients with chronic low back pain and healthy controls.

ABSTRACT: Low back pain (LBP) is a global issue involving biological, psychological, and social factors. Pain-related fear has been shown to influence movement behavior, however, its association with some measures of movement behavior, such as spinal movement variability, remains inconclusive. To further investigate this, spinal kinematics during various activities of daily living (i.e., walking, running, lifting, and stair climbing) of 49 patients with chronic LBP and a group of 51 sex-, age-, and BMI-matched healthy controls were used to calculate lumbar spine movement variability which was quantified using different indices (i.e., coefficient of variation, coupling angle variability in vector coding, deviation phase of the continuous relative phase and an angle-angular velocity variability). Gene

SUBMITTER: Kehl C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11447241 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature