This study will investigate the associations between pain cognitions and movement-evoked pain in people with musculoskeletal pain complaints. This study will be carried out as a cross-sectional study. Participants will be recruited by means of flyers and social media.~Pain cognitions will be assessed using questionnaires (The Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS), The llness perception questionnaire-revised (IPQ-R), The Pain Vigilance and Awareness Questionnaire (PVAQ), The Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK), The 36-item short form health survey (SF-36)), whilst movement-evoked pain will be assessed using a lifting task. Participants will need to rate the experienced pain immediately after completing the task. To estimate the extent to which pain cognitions explain movement-evoked pain, correlational analyses will first be conducted between all variables to determine what variables will be included in the hierarchical regression analysis.
The aim of this study is to investigate the associations between pain cognitions and movement-evoked pain in people with musculoskeletal pain complaints.