The application of operant learning theory on chronic pain by Fordyce has had a huge
impact on chronic pain research and management. The operant model focuses on pain …

Avoidance is a hallmark symptom and a primary maintaining factor in anxiety disorders.
Theories of anxiety disorders have focused not only on overt avoidance, but also on more …

Background According to current fear‐avoidance models, changes in motor behaviour (eg
avoidance) are a key component in the development and maintenance of chronic pain …

Implications Interrupting ongoing tasks because of pain is expected to have a negative
impact on everyday activities and pursuit of valued goals. Various factors, however, might …

Exposure in vivo is a theory-driven and widely used treatment to tackle functional disability
in people with chronic primary pain. Exposure is quite effective; yet, in line with exposure …

Avoidance is considered a key contributor to the development and maintenance of chronic
pain disability, likely through its excessive generalization. This study investigated whether …

Excessive generalization of fear and avoidance are hallmark symptoms of chronic pain
disability, yet research focusing on the mechanisms underlying generalization of avoidance …

Extinction-based protocols such as exposure-in-vivo successfully reduce pain-related fear in
chronic pain conditions, but return of fear and clinical relapse often occur …

Avoidance behavior is a key contributor to the transition from acute pain to chronic pain
disability. Yet, there has been a lack of ecologically valid paradigms to experimentally …

People with chronic pain often fear and avoid movements and activities that were never
paired with pain. Safe movements may be avoided if they share some semantic relationship …