Pain medicine : the official journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Comparison of pain, pain burden, coping strategies, and attitudes between patients with systemic sclerosis and patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional study.
To analyze pain in systemic sclerosis (SSc), especially its impact and coping strategies, compared with the reference painful inflammatory rheumatological condition, rheumatoid arthritis (RA). ⋯ Pain intensity and dimension scores are lower in SSc patients, particularly those with limited disease, than in RA patients and are not correlated with disease activity. In both conditions, a neuropathic component is associated with higher pain scores and pain catastrophizing is frequent.