1. Younger age is associated with greater pain expression among patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis scheduled for a joint arthroplasty
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Josefina Skogö Nyvang, Josefine E. Naili, Maura D. Iversen, Eva W. Broström, and Margareta Hedström
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Knee osteoarthritis ,Hip osteoarthritis ,Age differences ,Sensory pain ,Affective pain ,Sex differences ,Diseases of the musculoskeletal system ,RC925-935 - Abstract
Abstract Background This study describes how patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis (OA), scheduled for arthroplasty, characterize their pain qualitatively and quantitatively and investigates whether differences exist in pain expression between younger and older patients, and between men and women. Methods One hundred eight patients scheduled for a joint arthroplasty completed the Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) or Hip Disability and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (HOOS) and a health-related quality of life question. Pain was assessed using the visual analogue scale (VAS), KOOS/HOOS and the Pain-o-Meter (POM) consisting of 12 sensory and 11 affective words (POM-Words). Frequency of analgesics use was assessed and preoperative radiographs were graded. ANOVA was used to test differences in pain expression with age (
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- 2019
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