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50 years on, Henry Beecher's "Measurement of subjective responses".

scientific article published in August 2010

A comment on the Schmidt/Fordyce discussion

scientific article published on 01 October 1990

A content analysis of activity pacing in chronic pain: what are we measuring and why?

scientific article

A content analysis of ideal, ought, and feared selves in patients with chronic low back pain

scientific article

A new episode of low back pain: who relies on bed rest?

scientific article published on 17 September 2007

A randomized controlled trial of exposure in vivo for patients with spinal pain reporting fear of work-related activities

scientific article published on 26 December 2007

Accuracy and awareness of perception: related, yet distinct (commentary on Herbert et al., 2012).

scientific article published on 9 October 2012

Active avoidance but not activity pacing is associated with disability in fibromyalgia

scientific article published on 27 August 2009

Active rehabilitation for chronic low back pain: cognitive-behavioral, physical, or both? First direct post-treatment results from a randomized controlled trial [ISRCTN22714229]

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Activity patterns in chronic pain: underlying dimensions and associations with disability and depressed mood.

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Acute low back pain: pain-related fear and pain catastrophizing influence physical performance and perceived disability

scientific article published on 13 December 2005

An electronic diary assessment of the effects of distraction and attentional focusing on pain intensity in chronic low back pain patients.

scientific article published on November 2006

An experimental approach to examining psychological contributions to multisite musculoskeletal pain.

scientific article published on 29 August 2014

An experimental investigation on attentional interference by threatening fixations of the neck in patients with chronic whiplash syndrome

scientific article published on 12 September 2006

Applying the fear-avoidance model to the chronic whiplash syndrome

scientific article published on 24 May 2007

Are we "fear-avoidant"?

scientific article published on 9 August 2006

Assessing pain and pain-related fear in acute low back pain: what is the smallest detectable change?

scientific article published in January 2007

Assessment of health state in patients with tinnitus: a comparison of the EQ-5D and HUI mark III.

scientific article published in July 2011

Assessment of readiness to change in patients with osteoarthritis. development and application of a new questionnaire

scientific article published in May 2005

Assessment of the components of observed chronic pain behavior: the Checklist for Interpersonal Pain Behavior (CHIP).

scientific article published in December 1990

Attitudes and beliefs of health care providers: extending the fear-avoidance model.

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Atypical modulation of startle in women in face of aversive bodily sensations

scientific article published on 27 March 2013

Behavioral Graded Activity Following First-Time Lumbar Disc Surgery

scientific article published on 01 August 2003

Behavioral Treatment for Chronic Low Back Pain

scientific article published on 01 February 2001

Breathtaking! About the comparison of the subjective sensations of pain and dyspnea

scientific article published on 2 April 2010

Catastrophizing and internal pain control as mediators of outcome in the multidisciplinary treatment of chronic low back pain

scientific article published in June 2004

Chronic low back pain: physical training, graded activity with problem solving training, or both? The one-year post-treatment results of a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 10 May 2007

Chronic low-back pain: what does cognitive coping skills training add to operant behavioral treatment? Results of a randomized clinical trial

scientific article published in December 1999

Chronic pain: avoidance or endurance?

scientific article published on 13 March 2009

Cognitive and Behavioral Factors in Fibromyalgia: Mood, Goals, and Task Performance

Cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia and sleep hygiene in fibromyalgia: a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 7 June 2013

Comment on ‘Differences in somatic perception in female patients with irritable bowel syndrome with and without fibromyalgia’ L. Chang et al., PAIN 84 (2000) 297–307

scientific article published on 01 April 2001

Competing goals attenuate avoidance behavior in the context of pain

scientific article published on 23 August 2014

Confirmatory factor analysis of the Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia: invariant two-factor model across low back pain patients and fibromyalgia patients

scientific article published in March 2004

Contingency learning deficits and generalization in chronic unilateral hand pain patients

scientific article

Cost-effectiveness of specialized treatment based on cognitive behavioral therapy versus usual care for tinnitus

scientific article published in June 2014

Decline in physical activity, disability and pain-related fear in sub-acute low back pain

scientific article published in August 2005

Development of and recovery from short- and long-term low back pain in occupational settings: a prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 20 February 2007

Dimensional and componential structure of a hierarchical organization of pain-related anxiety constructs.

scientific article published in September 2009

Dimensions and components of observed chronic pain behavior

scientific article published in October 1987

Disuse and deconditioning in chronic low back pain: concepts and hypotheses on contributing mechanisms

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Disuse and physical deconditioning in the first year after the onset of back pain

scientific article published on 30 April 2007

Do fibromyalgia patients display hypervigilance for innocuous somatosensory stimuli? Application of a body scanning reaction time paradigm.

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Do health care providersʼ attitudes towards back pain predict their treatment recommendations? Differential predictive validity of implicit and explicit attitude measures

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Do we need a communal coping model of pain catastrophizing? An alternative explanation.

scientific article published in October 2004

Does failure hurt? The effects of failure feedback on pain report, pain tolerance and pain avoidance

article by Johanna H.C. Hout et al published December 2000 in European Journal of Pain

Does fear of pain moderate the effects of sensory focusing and distraction on cold pressor pain in pain-free individuals?

scientific article

Dutch translation of the fear of pain questionnaire: Factor structure, reliability and validity: a comment on.

scientific article published on 2 October 2006

Dyspnea-related anxiety: The Dutch version of the Breathlessness Beliefs Questionnaire

scientific article published on 20 December 2010

Effect of seated trunk posture on eye blink startle and subjective experience: comparing flexion, neutral upright posture, and extension of spine

scientific article

Effectiveness of a tailor-made intervention for pregnancy-related pelvic girdle and/or low back pain after delivery: short-term results of a randomized clinical trial [ISRCTN08477490].

scientific article published on 27 February 2006

Effectiveness of behavioral graded activity after first-time lumbar disc surgery: short term results of a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on September 23, 2003

Effects of responsibility and mood on painful task persistence

scientific article published on 9 November 2012

Electronic diary assessment of pain-related fear, attention to pain, and pain intensity in chronic low back pain patients.

scientific article published on December 2004

Evaluating an in-home multicomponent cognitive behavioural programme to manage concerns about falls and associated activity avoidance in frail community-dwelling older people: Design of a randomised control trial [NCT01358032].

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Exposure in vivo versus operant graded activity in chronic low back pain patients: results of a randomized controlled trial.

scientific article published in February 2008

Exposure to physical movements in low back pain patients: restricted effects of generalization

scientific article published in November 2002

Falls and catastrophic thoughts about falls predict mobility restriction in community-dwelling older people: A structural equation modelling approach

scientific article published in July 2009

Fear and Pain

scholarly article

Fear of injury and physical deconditioning in patients with chronic low back pain

scientific article published in August 2003

Fear of movement/(re)injury and muscular reactivity in chronic low back pain patients: an experimental investigation

scientific article published in September 1999

Fear of movement/(re)injury in chronic low back pain and its relation to behavioral performance

scientific article published in September 1995

Fear of movement/(re)injury in chronic low back pain: education or exposure in vivo as mediator to fear reduction?

scientific article published in January 2005

Fear of movement/(re)injury, disability and participation in acute low back pain

scientific article published in September 2003

Fear of movement/injury in the general population: factor structure and psychometric properties of an adapted version of the Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia

scientific article published on 27 September 2005

Fear of pain, physical performance, and attentional processes in patients with fibromyalgia

scientific article published in July 2003

Fear reduction in subacute whiplash-associated disorders: the royal road to recovery?

scientific article

Fear-avoidance beliefs, disability, and participation in workers and non-workers with acute low back pain

scientific article published in January 2006

Fear-avoidance model of chronic musculoskeletal pain: 12 years on.

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Fear-avoidance model of chronic pain: the next generation.

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Feasibility of a nurse-led in-home cognitive behavioral program to manage concerns about falls in frail older people: a process evaluation

scientific article published on 26 March 2013

Feeling more pain, yet showing less: the influence of social threat on pain

scientific article published on 3 November 2011

General practitioners' treatment orientations towards low back pain: influence on treatment behaviour and patient outcome

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Goal conflict in chronic pain: day reconstruction method

scientific article published on 15 August 2018

Goals matter: Both achievement and pain-avoidance goals are associated with pain severity and disability in patients with low back and upper extremity pain

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Goals, mood and performance duration on cognitive tasks during experimentally induced mechanical pressure pain

scientific article published on August 10, 2012

Graded exposure in vivo in the treatment of pain-related fear: a replicated single-case experimental design in four patients with chronic low back pain

scientific article published in February 2001

Health Care Providers' Attitudes and Beliefs Towards Common Low Back Pain: Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the HC-PAIRS

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Health care provider's attitudes and beliefs towards chronic low back pain: the development of a questionnaire

scientific article published on November 1, 2003

Health care providers' orientations towards common low back pain predict perceived harmfulness of physical activities and recommendations regarding return to normal activity

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Health economic assessment of behavioural rehabilitation in chronic low back pain: a randomised clinical trial

scientific article published in February 1998

Is a Behavioral Graded Activity Program More Effective Than Manual Therapy in Patients With Subacute Neck Pain?

scientific article published on 01 May 2010

Is pain-related fear a predictor of somatosensory hypervigilance in chronic low back pain patients?

scientific article published in January 2002

La psychologie de la peur et de la douleur

Learning About Pain From Others: An Observational Learning Account

scientific article published on November 26, 2010

Long-term effectiveness and costs of a brief self-management intervention in women with pregnancy-related low back pain after delivery

scientific article

Lowering fear-avoidance and enhancing function through exposure in vivo. A multiple baseline study across six patients with back pain.

scientific article published in March 2004

Measuring fear of movement/(re)injury in chronic low back pain using implicit measures

scientific article published in January 2007

Measuring perceived harmfulness of physical activities in patients with chronic low back pain: the Photograph Series of Daily Activities--short electronic version

scientific article published on 13 July 2007

Mere Intention to Perform Painful Movements Elicits Fear of Movement-Related Pain: An Experimental Study on Fear Acquisition Beyond Actual Movements

scientific article published on February 28, 2013

Modulating pain thresholds through classical conditioning

scientific article published on 08 March 2019

Mood, stop-rules and task persistence: no mood-as-input effects in the context of pain

scientific article published on 28 June 2013

More is not always better: cost-effectiveness analysis of combined, single behavioral and single physical rehabilitation programs for chronic low back pain

scientific article published on 22 April 2008

More optimism, less pain! The influence of generalized and pain-specific expectations on experienced cold-pressor pain.

scientific article published on 23 October 2012

Muscle Pain, Fear-Avoidance Model

scholarly article

Negative emotional constructs relevant to pain: unique variability, content overlap, and interrelations: a comment on Mounce, Keogh, and Eccleston (2010).

scientific article published on 17 December 2010

New proposals for the International Classification of Diseases-11 revision of pain diagnoses

scientific article published in April 2012

Nonpain goal pursuit inhibits attentional bias to pain

scientific article published on 10 March 2012

Norming clinical questionnaires with multiple regression: The Pain Cognition List

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

Norming of the Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia across pain diagnoses and various countries.

scientific article published in May 2011

Observational learning and pain-related fear: an experimental study with colored cold pressor tasks

scientific article published on 21 October 2011

Observational learning and pain-related fear: exploring contingency learning in an experimental study using colored warm water immersions.

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Older people's preferences regarding programme formats for managing concerns about falls.

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On the validity of ‘activity pacing’. Comment on Jensen “Research on coping with chronic pain: The importance of active avoidance of inappropriate conclusions” [Pain 2009;147:3–4]

Operant Learning Theory in Pain and Chronic Pain Rehabilitation

scientific article published on April 1, 2012

Pain Catastrophizing Is Associated With Health Indices in Musculoskeletal Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study in the Dutch Community

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Pain Catastrophizing Predicts Pain Intensity, Disability, and Psychological Distress Independent of the Level of Physical Impairment

scientific article published on 01 June 2001

Pain Catastrophizing and Kinesiophobia: Predictors of Chronic Low Back Pain

scientific article published on 01 December 2002

Pain and pain-related fear are associated with functional and social disability in an occupational setting: evidence of mediation by pain-related fear

scientific article published on 30 September 2005

Pain catastrophizing and general health status in a large Dutch community sample

scientific article published in September 2002

Pain catastrophizing moderates the effects of pain-contingent task interruptions.

scientific article published on 16 January 2013

Pain catastrophizing, threat, and the informational value of mood: task persistence during a painful finger pressing task

scientific article published on 28 April 2012

Pain in context: Cues predicting a reward decrease fear of movement related pain and avoidance behavior

scientific article published on 21 July 2016

Pain, mind, and movement: an expanded, updated, and integrated conceptualization.

scientific article published on May 2008

Pain-Related Fear, Perceived Harmfulness of Activities, and Functional Limitations in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type I

scientific article published on October 26, 2011

Pain-related factors contributing to muscle inhibition in patients with chronic low back pain: an experimental investigation based on superimposed electrical stimulation

scientific article published in May 2005

Pain-related fear and daily functioning in patients with osteoarthritis

scientific article published in July 2004

Pain-related fear in acute low back pain: the first two weeks of a new episode

scientific article published in January 2002

Pain-related fear in low back pain: a prospective study in the general population

scientific article published on 20 March 2006

Pain-related fear is more disabling than pain itself: evidence on the role of pain-related fear in chronic back pain disability

scientific article published in March 1999

Pain-related fear predicts disability, but not pain severity: a path analytic approach of the fear-avoidance model

scientific article published on 26 February 2010

Patient utilities in chronic musculoskeletal pain: how useful is the standard gamble method?

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

Physical activity in daily life in patients with chronic low back pain

article by Jeanine A. Verbunt et al published June 2001 in Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Physiotherapists’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Intolerance of Uncertainty Influence Decision Making in Low Back Pain

scientific article published on 01 July 2012

Positive affect protects against deficient safety learning during extinction of fear of movement-related pain in healthy individuals scoring relatively high on trait anxiety

scientific article published on 17 March 2014

Predictors of outcome in patients with (sub)acute low back pain differ across treatment groups

scientific article published in July 2006

Psychological Flexibility: What Theory and Which Predictions?

Psychological changes and the resolution of acute neck pain after a motor vehicle accident

scientific article

Psychometric evaluation of the Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale (PASS) in chronic pain patients

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Psychometric properties of the Tampa Scale for kinesiophobia and the fear-avoidance beliefs questionnaire in acute low back pain

scientific article published in February 2003

Psychophysiological responses to various slow, deep breathing techniques

scientific article published on 27 October 2020

Quality of life in chronic pain is more associated with beliefs about pain, than with pain intensity

scientific article published in February 2005

Readiness to adopt the self-management approach to cope with chronic pain in fibromyalgic patients

scientific article published on 01 February 2001

Reduction of Pain Catastrophizing Mediates the Outcome of Both Physical and Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment in Chronic Low Back Pain

Reduction of fear of movement-related pain and pain-related anxiety: An associative learning approach using a voluntary movement paradigm

scientific article published on May 20, 2012

Reduction of pain-related fear and disability in post-traumatic neck pain: a replicated single-case experimental study of exposure in vivo.

scientific article published on 23 August 2008

Reduction of pain-related fear and increased function and participation in work-related upper extremity pain (WRUEP): effects of exposure in vivo

scientific article published on 15 August 2012

Reduction of pain-related fear in complex regional pain syndrome type I: the application of graded exposure in vivo

scientific article published in August 2005

Reply to Wallis et al., PAIN 73 (1997) 15-22

scientific article published on 01 December 1998

Residual complaints following lumbar disc surgery: prognostic indicators of outcome

scientific article published on 26 January 2005

Response inhibition predicts painful task duration and performance in healthy individuals performing a cold pressor task in a motivational context.

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Role of fear of movement in cancer survivors participating in a rehabilitation program: a longitudinal cohort study

scientific article published in February 2012

Safety behavior can hamper the extinction of fear of movement-related pain: an experimental investigation in healthy participants.

scientific article published on 4 August 2012

Secondary prevention of work-related disability in nonspecific low back pain: does problem-solving therapy help? A randomized clinical trial

scientific article published in March 2003

Selective attention and avoidance of pain-related stimuli: a dot-probe evaluation in a pain-free population.

scientific article published on August 2003

Selective attention for pain-related information in healthy individuals: the role of pain and fear

scientific article published in January 2002

Self-discrepancies in work-related upper extremity pain: relation to emotions and flexible-goal adjustment

scientific article published on 24 December 2009

Somatic and psychologic predictors of long-term unfavorable outcome after surgical intervention

scientific article published in March 2007

Specialised treatment based on cognitive behaviour therapy versus usual care for tinnitus: a randomised controlled trial.

scientific article published in May 2012

Tailored treatment: It's not what you think it is. Comment on the article by van Koulil et al

scientific article published on 01 June 2011

The Fear of Pain Questionnaire (FPQ): further psychometric examination in a non-clinical sample.

scientific article published on August 2005

The PACE trial in chronic fatigue syndrome

The Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia: further examination of psychometric properties in patients with chronic low back pain and fibromyalgia.

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The acquisition of fear of movement-related pain and associative learning: a novel pain-relevant human fear conditioning paradigm

scientific article published in July 2011

The applicability of the Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia for patients with sub-acute neck pain: a qualitative study

The association of physical deconditioning and chronic low back pain: a hypothesis-oriented systematic review.

scientific article published on June 2006

The back pain beliefs of health care providers: are we fear-avoidant?

scientific article published in December 2002

The contribution of disease severity, depression and negative affectivity to fatigue in multiple sclerosis: a comparison with ulcerative colitis

scientific article published on 21 January 2010

The cost diary

scientific article published on 01 July 2000

The differential role of pain, work characteristics and pain-related fear in explaining back pain and sick leave in occupational settings

scientific article published in January 2005

The effect of differential spatiotopic information on the acquisition and generalization of fear of movement-related pain

scientific article published on 15 May 2019

The effects of cognitive-behavioural therapy in chronic pain

scientific article published on 01 May 1996

The effects of failure feedback and pain-related fear on pain report, pain tolerance, and pain avoidance in chronic low back pain patients

scientific article published in May 2001

The experimental analysis of the interruptive, interfering, and identity-distorting effects of chronic pain

scientific article (publication date: November 2016)

The fear-avoidance model of musculoskeletal pain: current state of scientific evidence.

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The fear-avoidance model of pain: We are not there yet. Comment on Wideman et al. "A prospective sequential analysis of the fear-avoidance model of pain" [Pain, 2009] and Nicholas "First things first: reduction in catastrophizing before fear of move

scientific article published on 22 September 2009

The fidelity of treatment delivery can be assessed in treatment outcome studies: a successful illustration from behavioral medicine

scientific article published on 22 August 2008

The influence of fear of movement and pain catastrophizing on daily pain and disability in individuals with acute whiplash injury: a daily diary study

scientific article published on 31 July 2008

The joint contribution of physical pathology, pain-related fear and catastrophizing to chronic back pain disability

scientific article published in January 2005

The modified Stroop paradigm as a measure of selective attention towards pain-related stimuli among chronic pain patients: a meta-analysis.

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The need to revise pain diagnoses in ICD-11

The pain vigilance and awareness questionnaire (PVAQ): further psychometric evaluation in fibromyalgia and other chronic pain syndromes.

scientific article published on February 2003

The psychology of chronic pain and its management

The relationship between anxiety sensitivity and fear of pain in healthy adolescents

scientific article published in November 2001

The role of current mood and stop rules on physical task performance: an experimental investigation in patients with work-related upper extremity pain.

scientific article published on 8 August 2009

The role of fear of movement/(re)injury in pain disability

scientific article published on 01 December 1995

The treatment of fear of movement/(re)injury in chronic low back pain: further evidence on the effectiveness of exposure in vivo

scientific article (publication date: July 2002)

Threat of pain influences social context effects on verbal pain report and facial expression

scientific article published on 11 June 2009

Tinnitus interferes with daily life activities: a psychometric examination of the Tinnitus Disability Index.

scientific article published in September 2011

Tinnitus: a cost study.

scientific article published in July 2013

Treatment Expectancy Affects the Outcome of Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions in Chronic Pain

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Treatment Expectancy and Credibility Are Associated With the Outcome of Both Physical and Cognitive-behavioral Treatment in Chronic Low Back Pain

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

Treatment of pregnancy-related pelvic girdle and/or low back pain after delivery design of a randomized clinical trial within a comprehensive prognostic cohort study [ISRCTN08477490]

scientific article

Treatment processes during exposure and cognitive-behavioral therapy for chronic back pain: A single-case experimental design with multiple baselines

Treatments addressing pain-related fear and anxiety in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain: a preliminary review.

scientific article published on January 2010

Understanding fear of pain in chronic pain: interoceptive fear conditioning as a novel approach.

scientific article published on 25 March 2011

Wilbert E. Fordyce (1923-2009): An appreciation

article published in 2010

Women, but not men, report increasingly more pain during repeated (un)predictable painful electrocutaneous stimulation: Evidence for mediation by fear of pain

scientific article published on 7 March 2012

“Being” in pain: The role of self-discrepancies in the emotional experience and activity patterns of patients with chronic low back pain