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      Pain extent and function in youth with physical disabilities

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          Abstract

          Background

          The aim of this study was to increase our understanding of the role that spatial qualities of pain (location and extent) play in functioning, among youths with disabilities and chronic pain.

          Methods

          One-hundred and fifteen youths (mean age 14.4 years; SD ±3.3 years) with physical disabilities and chronic pain were interviewed and were asked to provide information about pain locations and their average pain intensity in the past week, and to complete measures of pain interference, psychological function and disability. Most of the participants in this sample were males (56%), Caucasian (68%), and had a cerebral palsy (34%) or muscular dystrophy (25%) problem. Most participants did not report high levels of disability ( X ¯ = 12.7 , SD ±9.5, range 0–60) or global pain intensity ( X ¯ = 3.2 , SD ±2.4, range 0–10).

          Results

          Pain at more than one body site was experienced by 91% of participants. There were positive associations between pain extent with pain interference ( r = 0.30) and disability ( r = 0.30), and a negative association with psychological function ( r = –0.38), over and above average pain intensity. Additionally, pain intensity in the back (as opposed to other locations) was associated with more pain interference ( r = 0.29), whereas pain intensity in the shoulders was associated with less psychological function ( r = –0.18), and pain intensity in the bottom or hips was associated with more disability ( r = 0.29).

          Conclusion

          The findings support the need to take into account pain extent in the assessment and treatment of youths with physical disabilities and chronic pain, call our attention about the need to identify potential risk factors of pain extent, and develop and evaluate the benefits of treatments that could reduce pain extent and target pain at specific sites.

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              Localized or widespread musculoskeletal pain: does it matter?

              Although epidemiological descriptions indicate that musculoskeletal pain is often widespread, still a lot of musculoskeletal pain is diagnosed and treated as localized pain. This led us to question whether localized pain exists at all and to evaluate its functional impact compared with that of widespread musculoskeletal pain. Therefore, this study aimed to describe the prevalence of localized and widespread musculoskeletal pain and its association to functional ability. In 2004, questionnaires about musculoskeletal pain were mailed to seven age groups in Ullensaker, Norway: 24-26, 34-36, 44-46, 54-56, 64-66, 74-76, and 84-86 years old. In total, 3325 persons participated (participation rate 54.4%). We excluded the oldest age group and persons who did not respond to any questions about pain during the previous week, thus reducing the participants in this study to 3179. Although musculoskeletal pain occurred frequently in the population, localized pain, in the meaning of single site pain, was relatively rare. Most people having musculoskeletal pain reported pain from a number of sites. Furthermore, experiencing single site pain did not have a large impact on physical fitness, feelings, or daily and social activities. Functional problems increased markedly, in an almost linear way with increasing number of pain sites. These findings suggest that musculoskeletal pain usually coexists with pain in other body regions and that the functional consequences are highly dependent on how widespread the pain is. This should have important implications for future research into musculoskeletal pain, and for clinical and social insurance medicine.
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                Journal
                J Pain Res
                J Pain Res
                Journal of Pain Research
                Journal of Pain Research
                Dove Medical Press
                1178-7090
                2017
                05 January 2017
                : 10
                : 113-120
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Unit for the Study and Treatment of Pain – ALGOS, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia, Spain
                [2 ]Research Center for Behavior Assessment (CRAMC), Department of Psychology, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia, Spain
                [3 ]Institut d’Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Catalonia, Spain; Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia, Spain
                [4 ]Chair in Pediatric Pain, Universitat Rovira i Virgili-Fundación Grünenthal, Catalonia, Spain
                [5 ]Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
                [6 ]Department of Occupational Science and Technology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA
                Author notes
                Correspondence: Jordi Miró, Departament de Psicologia, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Carretera de Valls s/n, 43007 Tarragona, Spain, Telephone: +34 9 775 5179, Email jordi.miro@ 123456urv.cat
                Article
                jpr-10-113
                10.2147/JPR.S121590
                5221720
                af89b06a-01f7-4549-a9ba-e9eb0271686b
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                Anesthesiology & Pain management
                pain extent,pediatric chronic pain,physical disability,function

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