Arthritis care & research
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Arthritis care & research · Jun 2019
Role of Hip Injury and Giving Way in Pain Exacerbation in Hip Osteoarthritis: An Internet-Based Case-Crossover Study.
To evaluate the association between hip injury/giving way and hip pain exacerbations in patients with symptomatic hip osteoarthritis (OA). ⋯ Hip injury and episodes of the hip giving way were significantly related to pain exacerbation in patients with symptomatic hip OA. Methods to prevent exposure to injury may help to reduce the burden of pain in patients with hip OA.
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Arthritis care & research · Jun 2019
Effects of Osteoarthritis Pain, and Concurrent Insomnia and Depression on Health Care Use in a Primary Care Population of Older Adults.
To examine independent and combined effects of pain with concurrent insomnia and depression symptoms on the use of health care services in older adults with osteoarthritis (OA). ⋯ Pain is the main driver for health care use in patients with OA. In addition to pain, insomnia plus depression jointly increased diverse types of health care use, and these combined effects increased greatly with increasing severity of insomnia and depression. These findings indicate the important role that concurrent symptomatic conditions may play in increasing use of health care services.