Rita Santos

TL;DR: Attentional control theory is an approach to anxiety and cognition representing a major development of Eysenck and Calvo's (1992) processing efficiency theory and may not impair performance effectiveness when it leads to the use of compensatory strategies (e.g., enhanced effort; increased use of processing resources).

TL;DR: There is little evidence to link such fear states with poor prognosis, but there is some evidence to suggest that fear may play a role when pain has become persistent.

TL;DR: The MMICS Statement is primarily aimed at researchers who want to investigate prognosis in LBP, and this will allow data from cohorts to be pooled and will facilitate comparisons between different health care systems.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on differences between anxiety and depression and found that depression was associated more with past events than future events, whereas the opposite was the case with anxiety.

TL;DR: Overall, all three groups endorse a psychosocial approach to treatment, and see re-activation as a primary goal, however, physiotherapists and osteopaths tend to endorse attitudes towards limiting the number of treatment sessions offered to LBP patients more than chiropractor, and chiropractors endorse a more biomedical approach than physiotherAPists.