Anxiety And Anxiety

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Pain, fear and anxiety have been shown to influence motor control. Discuss the literature regarding this and how it may influence the rehabilitation of someone with chronic pain.

Some past studies have shown that emotion’s influence on cognitive control ability. The relationship between emotion and action has become the major concern to many exercise physiologists. J.Zhu and P.Thagard have argue that emotions contribute significantly to the processes of the action generation as well as action execution and control. Emotion is an underlying factors to interfere before an intention or plan has done that can be realised by muscle-skeleton system. These actions of control are affected unintentionally. For example, your lips tremble while speaking when you are in the state of fear and anxiety or they may shiver with fear before a presentation or interview. Furthermore, pain is also another major factors always associated with these negative emotions.
Recent research data has shown some evidence that proclaim pain may have an impact on performance. “Movements influence the way we experience pain, and pain alters the way we control movement”. All these negative impacts on performance of motor control may influence the rehabilitation of someone with chronic pain. Therefore, people trying to manage their emotions(fear and anxiety)or presence of fear-related pain in order to have a higher effectiveness of motor control.

‘Effects of anxiety on performance’ has been one of the main focuses to investigate on motor control. Most of the research has shown that the emotion of fear and anxiety may alter the result of the performance. In recent days, anxiety has been viewed as an antagonistic emotion that impairs on performance, especially for ...

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...effectiveness of rehabilitation of chronic pain.
• The belief of pain avoidance may limit any activity that causing pain or pain danger. This increases the limitation of exposing full range of pain stimulation and pain sensation and pain experience. Cognitive changes with high sensitivity of pain and extreme non-adaptive response to pain is likely to have high perception of pain. Premature termination of rehabilitation for chronic patients

“If we learn to control the fear about pain, maybe that will help us better control pain”
Research has shown that anxiety sensitivity has an impact on fear of pain which lead to pain-related escape and avoidance and finally effects pain severity.
Every people have their own responses to pain, and this variation is the main factor that let us feel about the pain to premature termination of rehabilitation in chronic pain patient.

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