The relationship between guarding, pain, and emotion.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Pain-related behavior in people with chronic pain is often overlooked in a focus on increasing the amount of activity, yet it may limit activity and maintain pain and disability. Targeting it in treatment requires better understanding of the role of beliefs, emotion, and pain in pain behavior.

Objectives

This study aimed to clarify the interrelationships between guarding, pain, anxiety, and confidence in movement in people with chronic pain in everyday movements.

Methods

Physiotherapists rated extent of guarding on videos of people with chronic pain and healthy controls making specific movements. Bayesian modelling was used to determine how guarding was related to self-reported pain intensity, anxiety, and emotional distress, and observer-rated confidence

SUBMITTER: Olugbade T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6728010 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature