Sethi, Vidhu;
Anand, Chetan;
Della Pasqua, Oscar;
(2024)
Clinical Assessment of Osteoarthritis Pain: Contemporary Scenario, Challenges, and Future Perspectives.
Pain and Therapy
, 13
pp. 391-408.
10.1007/s40122-024-00592-8.
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Abstract
The multifaceted nature of osteoarthritis (OA) pain presents a challenge in understanding and managing the condition. The diverse pain experiences, progression rates, individual responses to treatments, and complex disease mechanisms contribute to heterogeneity in the clinical studies outcomes. The lack of a standardized methodology for assessing and classifying OA pain challenges healthcare practitioners. This complicates the establishment of universally applicable protocols or standardized guidelines for treatment. This article explores the heterogeneity observed in clinical studies evaluating OA pain treatments, highlighting the necessity for refined methodologies, personalized patient categorization, and consistent outcome measures. It discusses the role of the multidimensional nature of OA pain, underlying pain mechanisms, and other contributing factors to the heterogeneity in outcome measures. Addressing these variations is crucial to establishing a more consistent framework for evidence-based treatments and advancing care of the patient with OA pain.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Clinical Assessment of Osteoarthritis Pain: Contemporary Scenario, Challenges, and Future Perspectives |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s40122-024-00592-8 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s40122-024-00592-8 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | Osteoarthritis, Clinical studies, Chronic pain, Pain sensitization, Heterogeneity, Quality of life |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > UCL School of Pharmacy UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > UCL School of Pharmacy > Pharmacology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10195623 |
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