Tamar Pincus

TL;DR: A systematic review of prospective cohort studies in low back pain this article found that psychological factors (notably distress, depressive mood, and somatization) are implicated in the transition from an acute presentation to chronicity.

TL;DR: It is suggested that biases in information processing in chronic pain are the result of overlap between 3 schemas: pain, illness, and self, and processing biases that extend beyond this healthy and adaptive process to enmesh the self-schema with pain and illness schemas could maintain and exacerbate distress and illness behavior in patients with chronic pain.

TL;DR: The social component of the biopsychosocial model is important to patients but not well represented in current core-sets of outcome measures, and researchers should consider social factors to help develop a portfolio of more relevant outcome measures.

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: In this article, an updated review explores whether there is stronger evidence supporting the role of fear avoidance in early stages of low back pain as a predictor of outcome, and this evidence was examined in reference to current models and knowledge about fear avoidance.