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Ten weeks of physical-cognitive-mindfulness training reduces fear-avoidance beliefs about work-relat

JaimeS

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Ten weeks of physical-cognitive-mindfulness training reduces fear-avoidance beliefs about work-related activity: Randomized controlled trial

Otherwise known as 'dammit, Naviaux did not banish them with a wave of his magic metabolome'.

Wellll maybe he did, this is from May. Some fool must have cited it for it to show up in my Google alerts.


Jay, Kenneth MSc; Brandt, Mikkel MSc; Jakobsen, Markus Due PhD; Sundstrup, Emil PhD; Berthelsen, Kasper Gymoese MD; schraefel, mc PhD; Sjøgaard, Gisela PhD, Med Sci; Andersen, Lars L. PhD


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aNational Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø Parkallé, Copenhagen

bInstitute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

cElectronics and Computer Science University of Southampton, United Kingdom

dPhysical Activity and Human Performance Group, SMI, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark

eDepartment of Abdominal- & ENT-Anaesthesia, Aalborg University, Denmark

fThe Carrick Institute—Clinical Neuroscience and Rehabilitation Cape Canaveral, FL.

Correspondence: Kenneth Jay, National Research Centre for the Working Environment Copenhagen, Denmark (e-mail: kennethjay@icloud.com;kennethjay1978@gmail.com).

Abbreviations: FAB = Fear-avoidance beliefs, FABQ = Fear-avoidance beliefs questionnaire, PCMT = hysical-cognitive-mindfulness training, PRF = Pain-related fear, REF = Reference.

The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

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Received January 12, 2016

Received in revised form May 17, 2016

Accepted May 23, 2016

Abstract

Abstract: People with chronic musculoskeletal pain often experience pain-related fear of movement and avoidance behavior. The Fear-Avoidance model proposes a possible mechanism at least partly explaining the development and maintenance of chronic pain. People who interpret pain during movement as being potentially harmful to the organism may initiate a vicious behavioral cycle by generating pain-related fear of movement accompanied by avoidance behavior and hyper-vigilance.

This study investigates whether an individually adapted multifactorial approach comprised of biopsychosocial elements, with a focus on physical exercise, mindfulness, and education on pain and behavior, can decrease work-related fear-avoidance beliefs.

As part of a large scale 10-week worksite randomized controlled intervention trial focusing on company initiatives to combat work-related musculoskeletal pain and stress, we evaluated fear-avoidance behavior in 112 female laboratory technicians with chronic neck, shoulder, upper back, lower back, elbow, and hand/wrist pain using the Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire at baseline, before group allocation, and again at the post intervention follow-up 10 weeks later.

A significant group by time interaction was observed (P  < 0.05) for work-related fear-avoidance beliefs. The between-group difference at follow-up was –2.2 (–4.0 to –0.5), corresponding to a small to medium effect size (Cohen's d = 0.30).

Our study shows that work-related, but not leisure time activity-related, fear-avoidance beliefs, as assessed by the Fear-avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire, can be significantly reduced by 10 weeks of physical-cognitive-mindfulness training in female laboratory technicians with chronic pain.


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Full text here: http://journals.lww.com/md-journal/...eks_of_physical_cognitive_mindfulness.16.aspx
 

Kyla

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@JaimeS is this about ME/CFS? Neither is mentioned in the abstract.

If not maybe it could be moved to the "other health research" forum?
Not trying to be nitpicky, but we have enough crappy psychosocial studies without adding from other fields, no? :);):D
 

osisposis

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@JaimeS is this about ME/CFS? Neither is mentioned in the abstract.

If not maybe it could be moved to the "other health research" forum?
Not trying to be nitpicky, but we have enough crappy psychosocial studies without adding from other fields, no? :);):D



I'm kind of fearless myself, loll's, maybe overly fearless, may have something to do with the Amygdala, did I spell that right?
 

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This is a pain avoidance paper, but its the same modus operandi as the psychobabble for ME. If I have the energy I will take a look and see if it looks like its not babble, but at this point I presume babble until proven otherwise.

PS. I just skimmed some bits, it still looks like babble. I think its time we insist on objective long term outcome measures to assess this kind of research. Anything less is unacceptable. I wonder if these researchers could rise to that challenge?
 
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osisposis

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sorry, I have to giggle a little here, I was in a group for many years where extreme fear was basicly shoved down your throat by some, and I thought it was a little funny when some of them started buying into this "retraining your brain thing" cant remember now what the exact term they used, some spent a lot of money on this kind of treatment and claimed it cured them , that's when I really started realizeing that ya for some fear was ruleing their world, I mean to each it's own I guess but the whole ordeal just made me even mader at the protochild and his rantings. cant say it's for me but maybe it does help some people.??? I'm mean ya, phycological and physicologial stress'ers does involve the same pathway , cant think of names,para sympathatic, something like that , to long sence I looked at that, (witch is no doubt involved in why some chemical exposures leave you where than you cant deal with much stress because it starts making you physically ill) but like I tried to tell them , maybe, maybe combat , extreme phycologial stress for a period of time could play in but even those in combat likely had some chemical exposures and no one has gotten this disease that I know of because of fear alone, cant tell you how many times I tried to get some people to calm down, so maybe if only for something to believe in ,for some people it may help. and I did notice that childhood abuse was mentioned in the microbiome paper, you know, everyone is different, even in the way they handle stressful situations, so I shouldn't laugh I guess, whatever helps helps .
 

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JaimeS, being familiar with your excellent writing skills, I really did think that this was a spoof when I read the title.

They might not have even got close to working out what ME is, but they do seem likely to win the most hyphens in a sentence award. I wonder if this is only partially a result of psychosomatic jargon; perhaps Danish is like German and you can stick a whole load of nouns together to form a word, and this is how they translated those words: either way, it sounds ridiculous in English.

Obviously I´m not going to comment on (or even read) the actual paper.
 
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@JaimeS, thought you might like this further info.

The most interesting part of the paper for me was the reliance on theories by Gordon Waddell.

He was one of the first in the BPS field to have his theories used for denying insurance claims all over the world.

For a good overview of his impact in the BPS field:

http://dpac.uk.net/2014/09/gordon-waddells-biopsychosocial-attack-on-disabled-people/

2a “Chronic low back pain disability can only develop with family and financial Support.”

2b “Depending on how you look at it, disability is illness behaviour, and illness behavior is disability).

(Gordon Waddell, The Back Pain Revolution, first edition 1998, pp. 227, 170).

and a couple of papers I found about his theories;

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12911018
A structured evidence-based review on the meaning of nonorganic physical signs: Waddell signs.
Fishbain DA1, Cole B, Cutler RB, Lewis J, Rosomoff HL, Rosomoff RS.

Abstract
STUDY DESIGN:
This is a structured, evidence-based review of all available studies addressing the concept of nonorganic findings: Waddell signs (WSs).

OBJECTIVES:

To determine what evidence, if any, exists for the various interpretations for the presence of WSs on physical examination.


Of the 61 studies, four had quality scores below 75% and were not used to generate the results of this review. According to the AHCPR guidelines for strength and consistency of the reviewed data, the following results were obtained: 1) There was consistent evidence for WSs being associated with decreased functional performance, poor nonsurgical treatment outcome, and greater levels of pain; 2) There was generally consistent evidence for WSs not being associated with psychological distress, abnormal illness behavior, or secondary gain; 3) There was also generally consistent evidence that WSs are an organic phenomenon and that they cannot be used to discriminate organic from nonorganic problems; 4) There was inconsistent evidence that WSs do demonstrate inter-rater reliability, do not correlate with the neurotic triad of the MMPI, are associated with poorer surgical treatment outcome, and are associated with nonreturn to work; 5) There was little or no evidence that WSs demonstrate test-retest reliability, or reliable factors, and are associated with self-esteem problems, catastrophizing, or the nonorganic pain drawing.

CONCLUSIONS:
Based on the above results, the following conclusions were made: 1) WSs do not correlate with psychological distress; 2) WSs do not discriminate organic from nonorganic problems; 3) WSs may represent an organic phenomenon; 4) WSs are associated with poorer treatment outcome; 5) WSs are associated with greater pain levels; 6) WSs are not associated with secondary gain; and 7) As a group, WS studies demonstrate some methodological problems.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15502683
Is there a relationship between nonorganic physical findings (Waddell signs) and secondary gain/malingering?


Fishbain DA1, Cutler RB, Rosomoff HL, Rosomoff RS.

no association.
(my first ever snarky medical paper quote :D)
 

TiredSam

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People with chronic musculoskeletal pain often experience pain-related fear of movement and avoidance behavior. The Fear-Avoidance model proposes a possible mechanism at least partly explaining the development and maintenance of chronic pain. People who interpret pain during movement as being potentially harmful to the organism may initiate a vicious behavioral cycle by generating pain-related fear of movement accompanied by avoidance behavior and hyper-vigilance.

This study investigates ...

Whoa, hang on, before you start investigating, can you just explain that first bit again, the "The Fear-Avoidance model proposes a possible mechanism at least partly explaining" blah blah?

"model", "propose", "possible", "at least", "partly" - how many qualifications are needed in one sentence? The next sentence is no better - "potentially", "may" ...

Are these people prepared to commit themselves to anything, or merely in training for the arse-covering world championships? They should be required to explain their model, including mechanism and causation, clearly and unambiguously before being allowed to "investigate" anything. Definitely.
 
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12911018
A structured evidence-based review on the meaning of nonorganic physical signs: Waddell signs.
Fishbain DA1, Cole B, Cutler RB, Lewis J, Rosomoff HL, Rosomoff RS.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15502683
Is there a relationship between nonorganic physical findings (Waddell signs) and secondary gain/malingering?


Fishbain DA1, Cutler RB, Rosomoff HL, Rosomoff RS.

Thanks for them. Anyone know if there's any sort of consensus on this?
 

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As part of a large scale 10-week worksite randomized controlled intervention trial focusing on company initiatives to combat work-related musculoskeletal pain and stress, we evaluated fear-avoidance behavior in 112 female laboratory technicians with chronic neck, shoulder, upper back, lower back, elbow, and hand/wrist pain

I dont see this study to do with anything about us.. this was a working group of people who didnt even have ME/CFS. It is probably bullshit though, with insurance companies or something behind it.

Those CBT preachers probably will be strongly targeting other patient groups once we all escape their clutches.
 
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Thanks for them. Anyone know if there's any sort of consensus on this?

I dont see this study to do with anything about us.. this was a working group of people who didnt even have ME/CFS. It is probably bullshit though, with insurance companies or something behind it.

Those CBT preachers probably will be strongly targeting other patient groups once we all escape their clutches.

I do know that the theories of Waddell were the foundation of the BPS school in the UK (along with Mansell Aylward), and were first used on patients with lower back pain. It seems to have been a good way for insurers and the state to deny work related injuries.

He claims his theories have been misunderstood and the fact that it saved a lot of money for big institutions, just a co-incidence.

I didn't see anything about him complaining when his literature was being handed out before crucial social security votes in the Houses of Parliament the other year.
 

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I do know that the theories of Waddell were the foundation of the BPS school in the UK (along with Mansell Aylward), and were first used on patients with lower back pain. It seems to have been a good way for insurers and the state to deny work related injuries.

He claims his theories have been misunderstood and the fact that it saved a lot of money for big institutions, just a co-incidence.

I didn't see anything about him complaining when his literature was being handed out before crucial social security votes in the Houses of Parliament the other year.

To be fair, CBT makes a lot more sense and is often worth trying when it comes to managing pain (if said pain doesn't have obvious physiological basis at the time). That treating ME with CBT makes about as much sense as treating diabetes with CBT doesn't make CBT itself universally illegitimate.