1. Larger pain extent is associated with greater pain intensity and disability but not with general health status or psychosocial features in patients with cervical radiculopathy
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Johanna Wibault, Birgitta Öberg, Emiliano Soldini, Anneli Peolsson, Åsa Dedering, Marco Barbero, Deborah Falla, Håkan Löfgren, Peter Zsigmond, and Kwun Lam
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Male ,Health Status ,Disease ,Disability Evaluation ,0302 clinical medicine ,Quality of life ,Adaptation, Psychological ,Medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Sjukgymnastik ,Physiotherapy ,Depression (differential diagnoses) ,Pain Measurement ,Neck pain ,Depression ,Age Factors ,Chronic pain ,cervical ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,Self Efficacy ,Somatic anxiety ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,widespread pain ,Cervical Vertebrae ,ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING ,pain drawing ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,chronic pain ,Psychosocial ,Cohort study ,Research Article ,Adult ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Pain ,Work Capacity Evaluation ,Observational Study ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,Sex Factors ,Humans ,Disabled Persons ,Exercise ,radiculopathy ,Aged ,Sweden ,business.industry ,medicine.disease ,Socioeconomic Factors ,Quality of Life ,Physical therapy ,business - Abstract
Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text, Pain as a result of cervical radiculopathy (CR) can be widespread, nondermatomal and individually specific, but the association between pain extent and other clinical features has never been explored. The objective of this study is to investigate whether pain extent relates to clinical variables including pain intensity in addition to health indicators including disability, general health, depression, somatic anxiety, coping strategies or self-efficacy. An observational cohort study was conducted. Participants were recruited from 4 hospital spinal centres in Sweden. Pain extent was quantified from the pain drawings of 190 individuals with cervical disc disease, verified with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and compatible with clinical findings (examined by a neurosurgeon), that show cervical nerve root compression. Pain extent was evaluated in relation to neck pain, arm pain, and headache intensity. Multiple linear regression analysis were then used to verify whether pain extent was associated with other health indicators including disability, health-related quality of life, depression, somatic anxiety, coping strategies and self-efficacy. Pain extent was directly related to neck, arm and headache pain intensity (all P more...
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- 2021