TY - JOUR AU - Smeets, Rob J. AB - SPECIAL TOPIC SERIES Interaction Between Pain, Movement, and Physical Activity Short-term Benefits, Long-term Consequences, and Targets for Treatment Paul W. Hodges, PhD, MedDr, DSc, BPhty(Hons)* and Rob J. Smeets, MD, PhDwz 4,5 complexity are only beginning to be understood. Abstract: Movement is changed in pain. This presents across a Important questions continue to be debated. Is movement spectrum from subtle changes in the manner in which a task is “inhibited” as a simple mechanism to avoid further pain completed to complete avoidance of a function and could be both a and injury? Is avoidance of movement driven by cognitive cause and effect of pain/nociceptive input and/or injury. Move- learning processes that can be changed? Are movement ment, in a variety of forms, is also recommended as a component of changes beneficial in the short- and long-term or are they treatment to aid the recovery in many pain syndromes. Some argue part of the problem? Current theories cannot answer these it may not be sufficient to simply increase activity, whereas others questions or explain the diversity of changes observed in defend a necessity to consider how a person moves. There is unlikely to be a simple relationship between pain and TI - Interaction Between Pain, Movement, and Physical Activity Short-term Benefits, Long-term Consequences, and Targets for Treatment JF - The Clinical Journal of Pain DO - 10.1097/AJP.0000000000000098 DA - 2015-02-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/interaction-between-pain-movement-and-physical-activity-short-term-gyBhZ7E0f4 SP - 97–107-97&ndash EP - ndash;107-97–107 VL - 31 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -