Kinesiophobia in relation to physical activity in chronic neck pain

Abstract

Our results showed that although people with chronic neck pain reported higher pain intensity and fear of movement, pain intensity and kinesiophobia degree did not associate to their physical activity levels. It can be speculated that high kinesiophobia degrees cause low physical activity levels for women, but not for men.

Factors associated with physical activity participation in adults with chronic cervical spine pain: a systematic review

“…One study was excluded as the authors did not 194 respond to our request for cervical spine data (28). A further study was excluded (29) as the 195 data utilised was in a poster presentation format and then the same data was subsequently 196 published in a peer reviewed journal (30). Accordingly, four papers were included in the final 197 The characteristics of the included studies are presented in Table 1.…”

“…All four papers were cohort 202 studies. Of these two were non-matched cohort studies (20,30), whilst two studies (31, 32) 203…”

“…Item 14 was 211 removed as the research question of the included studies did not require that the subjects were 212 blinded to the intervention. Items 17 and 21 were removed from the quality assessment of two 213 of the studies as the study designs did not need to adjust for length of follow ups or take into 214 account sampling from different populations (20,30). Item 19 was removed from the 215 assessment of all included studies as compliance was not an objective of their research.…”

“…Demirbuken et al (30) was the only study to assess fear of movement (kinesiophobia) and PA 244 participation. The study concluded that kinesiophobia was not a statistically significant factor in 245 PA participation (Pearson Correlation, p=0.148, r= -0.153).…”

“…The relationship between gender and PA participation was assessed by Demirbuken et al (30) Rasmussen-Barr et al (20) suggested that females with chronic neck pain who perceived they 266 had increased physical workloads took more sick leave and participated in less PA. The same 267 individuals also spent more time at a computer at work which also had a non-significant 268 association with reduced PA participation.…”