Movement and Pain Laboratory – LabMovePain

Lab coordinator: Thais Cristina Chaves, Ph.D.

LabMovDor includes activities in the following areas of interest:
• Biopsychosocial approach to musculoskeletal pain.
• Placebo and nocebo effects, contextual factors, and musculoskeletal pain.
• Ergonomics and Worker Health.
• Psychometric and clinimetric properties of assessment instruments used in rehabilitation.

The LabMovePain is composed of undergraduate, Master's, Ph.D., and Post-Doc students, and funded by FAPESP and CNPq. Research projects investigate the effectiveness of biopsychosocial approaches to chronic musculoskeletal pain, placebo effect and its manipulation for therapeutic purposes, and properties of assessment instruments used in rehabilitation.

Research projects are focused on chronic low back pain, neck pain, and temporomandibular disorders (TMD).

Several instruments used in rehabilitation were recently translated and validated by our research group: Maastricht Upper Extremity Questionnaire (MUEQ-Br-revised), Revised Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQR-BR), Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia for TMD (TSK- DTM), and Exercise Adherence Rating Scale (EARS).

The LabMovePain is equipped with pain assessment tools (e.g., Q-Sense for assessing pain threshold to heat and cold), algometers for assessing mechanical pain threshold, and Trigno Wireless electromyograph for assessing the electromyographic activity of superficial muscles.

@dr.thais.chaves