Pain and Sensitisation after Total Knee Replacement or Non ‐Surgical Treatment in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: Identifying Potential Predictors of Outcome at 12 Months

ConclusionLow PPTs at baseline predicted worse pain outcome after TKR, but did not predict outcome after non‐surgical interventions. The number of painful sites was weakly associated with pain and PPTs, and the higher pain/lower PPTs, the higher pain/lower PPTs at 12 months with females showing the lowest PPT values.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Source: European Journal of Pain - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Tags: Original Article Source Type: research