What is the relationship between fear of movement and physical activity in patients with cardiac, rheumatologic, neurologic, pulmonary, or pain conditions?
Fear of movement may have prognostic and therapeutic implications in patients for whom physical activity contributes to preventing recurrence or worsening of their condition.
Fear of movement should be dissociated from pain and considered in relation to specific health conditions when implementing exercise therapy. Fear of movement may have prognostic and therapeutic implications in patients for whom physical activity contributes to prevent recurrence or worsening of their condition.
Goubran et al. (Sun,) studied this question.