Role of psychological distress, catastrophizing and fear avoidance belief in Chronic Low Back Pain: Clinical Review

Abstract

When a person has difficulty understanding, learning new things, focusing, or making decisions that influence their daily life, they are said to have cognitive impairment. Chronic low back pain

(CLBP) can cause physical and psychological impairment and is associated with severe

comorbidities such as anxiety and depression or poor sleep quality. The association of low back pain with physical impairment, the world's highest debilitating condition, is also described by the mediation impact of fear, catastrophic and psychological distress. When evaluating clinical assessments, it's important to include unhelpful pain cognitions. The current narrative research looked at a developing but still limited field of study into CLBP's potential cognitive effects, with the objective of establishing which areas of functioning show evidence of a significant relationship between CLBP and cognitive performance.