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Emotional distress was associated with persistent shoulder pain after physiotherapy: a prospective cohort study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, August 2018
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Title
Emotional distress was associated with persistent shoulder pain after physiotherapy: a prospective cohort study
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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, August 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12891-018-2142-3
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Kaja Smedbråten, Britt Elin Øiestad, Yngve Røe

Abstract

There is a paucity of research on the association between psychological factors and persistent shoulder pain. The aim of this study was to investigate whether emotional distress was associated with pain intensity and self-reported disability after physiotherapy treatment in patients with shoulder pain. Data from 145 patients treated at physiotherapy outpatient clinics aged ≥18 years with self-reported pain in the shoulder or arm, and movement activity problems related to the upper-extremity, were included. Outcome measures were pain intensity measured by Numeric Pain Rating Scale and disability measured by Patient Specific Functional Scale. Demographic and clinical characteristics, including emotional distress measured by Hopkins Symptom Checklist - 25, were obtained at study onset. Association between characteristics at study onset and pain and disability after physiotherapy treatment were analysed using multiple linear regression and a backward manual elimination method. The final models were adjusted for age and sex. Higher emotional distress at study onset (B 1.06, 95% CI 0.44 to 1.68) was associated with higher pain intensity after the physiotherapy treatment (P = 0.001). Emotional distress was not associated with self-reported disability after the physiotherapy treatment. This study found that emotional distress at study onset was associated with shoulder pain intensity after physiotherapy treatment, but not with disability. The findings indicate that emotional distress should be included in the initial physiotherapy examination of shoulder pain.

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Unknown 75 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 17%
Student > Bachelor 11 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 11%
Other 6 8%
Student > Postgraduate 5 7%
Other 9 12%
Unknown 23 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 21 28%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 17%
Psychology 3 4%
Social Sciences 2 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 1%
Other 4 5%
Unknown 31 41%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 March 2023.
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#1,998,562
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
#11
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