Trajectories of pain predict disabilities affecting daily living in arthritis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To examine the interplay between pain and disability in arthritis when adjusting for patient heterogeneity in pain progression. There is consistent evidence to suggest that people experience osteoarthritis heterogeneously, with subgroups of people having different trajectories of pain. However, at present it is unclear how these pain trajectories are related to functional disability. We ask the question: Do levels of disability track changes in pain across different pain trajectories?

Methods

Secondary analysis of a subset (n = 889) from a cohort of older English adults, representative of the general population (the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing). The relationship between pain and functional disability was compared in three domains of disability: mobility, act

SUBMITTER: James RJE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6916370 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature