“…However, the relationships found did not rely on psychological variables specifically conceptualized for a better understanding of pain experience, such as catastrophizing, fear of pain, kinesiophobia, or pain anxiety. Other needle‐related procedures different from dry needling, such as immunization [10] or venipuncture [11], were influenced by pain catastrophizing. Furthermore, pain catastrophizing [12,13], fear of pain [14,15], kinesiophobia [12], or pain anxiety [16] were associated with experimental pain perception in muscle pain models, including the injection of substances [17] or delayed onset muscle soreness [15,18‐20], which is thought to be the result of a muscle injury that has characteristics similar to the neuromuscular damage produced by the needle [21].…”