Associations of pain sensitisation with tender and painful joint counts in people with hand osteoarthritis: results from the Nor-Hand study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine associations of pain sensitisation with tender and painful joint counts and presence of widespread pain in people with hand osteoarthritis (OA).

Methods

Pressure pain thresholds (PPT) at a painful finger joint and the tibialis anterior muscle, and temporal summation (TS) were measured in 291 persons with hand OA. We examined whether sex-standardised PPT and TS values were associated with assessor-reported tender hand joint count, self-reported painful hand and total body joint counts and presence of widespread pain using linear and logistic regression analyses adjusted for age, sex, body mass index, education and OA severity.

Results

People with lower PPTs at the painful finger joint (measure of peripheral and/or central sensitisation) had more te

SUBMITTER: Gloersen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8734025 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature