PAIN
Volume 145, Issue 1 , Pages 6-7 , September 2009

First things first: Reductions in catastrophising before fear of movement

Received 27 April 2009 ,Accepted 28 April 2009.

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PII: S0304-3959(09)00255-3

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.04.034

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