The term Kinesiophobia is used to describe patient circumstances characterised by an “excessive, irrational, and debilitating fear of physical movement and activity resulting from a feeling of vulnerability to painful injury or reinjury”. The Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia (TSK) was first developed in 1991 by R. Miller, S. Kopri, and D. Todd. It is a self-reported questionnaire that quantifies fear of movement, or (re)injury.Intended Population
This paper explains the development of the TSK-11 out of the initial 17 item scale.