Overactivity in Chronic Pain, the Role of Pain-related Endurance and Neuromuscular Activity: An Interdisciplinary, Narrative Review

Discussion: This narrative review brings together different research lines on overactivity, pain-related endurance, and supposed neuromuscular consequences. Clinicians should distinguish between patients who rest and escape from pain at low levels of pain, but who have high levels of fear of pain and those who predominantly persist in activities despite severely increasing pain until a break will be enforced by intolerable pain levels.
Source: The Clinical Journal of Pain - Category: Anesthesiology Tags: Special Topic Series: Approach to Physical Activity in Pain: From Theory to the Lab, From Clinic to the Patient Source Type: research