Considerations beyond spine pain: do different co-occurring lower body joint pains differentially influence physical function and quality of life ratings?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients seeking medical care for back pain often have coexisting painful joints and the effects of different combinations and number of coexisting pain sites (hip, knee, foot/ankle) to back pain on physical function domains and quality of life rating are not yet established. The purpose of this study was to determine the differences in functional outcomes and QOL among individuals with back pain who have concurrent additional pain sites or no pain sites.

Methods

Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) cohort were used for this cross-sectional analysis. Men and women aged 45-79 years with back pain were binned into nine groups by presence or not of coexisting hip, knee, ankle/foot pain and combinations of these sites (N = 1,642). Healthy controls reported no

SUBMITTER: McGargill S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11000411 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature