Associations Between Pain Perceptions and Movement-evoked Pain.

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Musculoskeletal Pain

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04545853

MEP_PC

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to investigate the associations between pain cognitions and movement-evoked pain in people with musculoskeletal pain complaints.

Full description

This study will investigate the associations between pain cognitions and movement-evoked pain in people with musculoskeletal pain complaints. This study will be carried out as a cross-sectional study. Participants will be recruited by means of flyers and social media.

Pain cognitions will be assessed using questionnaires (The Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS), The llness perception questionnaire-revised (IPQ-R), The Pain Vigilance and Awareness Questionnaire (PVAQ), The Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK), The 36-item short form health survey (SF-36)), whilst movement-evoked pain will be assessed using a lifting task. Participants will need to rate the experienced pain immediately after completing the task. To estimate the extent to which pain cognitions explain movement-evoked pain, correlational analyses will first be conducted between all variables to determine what variables will be included in the hierarchical regression analysis.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years or older,
• presence of musculoskeletal pain for more than three months,
• medically stable (no serious health conditions, no pending surgery or invasive medical procedure, no contraindication to physical activity).

Exclusion criteria

• Presence of co-existing pain conditions of other origins with chronic musculoskeletal pain not being the primary condition (i.e. predominant subject of symptom complaints)
• severe underlying comorbidity (like diagnosed diabetes, cardiovascular problems, etc.)
• pregnant or given birth in the preceding year.