Prognostics for pain in osteoarthritis: Do clinical measures predict pain after total joint replacement?
Joana Barroso, Kenta Wakaizumi, Diane Reckziegel, João Pinto-Ramos, Thomas J. Schnitzer, Vasco Galhardo, A. Vania Apkarian
This study evaluates clinical predictors of pain persistence after total joint replacement in OA patients, finding that pre-surgical pain levels are not related to post-surgical pain and multi-factorial models do not reliably predict outcomes.
PLoS ONE · Jan 8, 2020Peer-reviewedNeuroscience