ArticleJournal of pain research2021
Spreading of Pain in Patients with Chronic Pain is Related to Pain Duration and Clinical Presentation and Weakly Associated with Outcomes of Interdisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation: A Cohort Study from the Swedish Quality Registry for Pain Rehabilitation (SQRP).
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- Prognostic Factors for Quality of Life After Interdisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation in Patients with Chronic Pain-A Systematic Review.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2023Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Conversational Agents on Patient-Reported Outcomes in Chronic Pain Management: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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- Identifying and characterizing clinical subgroups in individuals with endometriosis.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Prognostic subgroups of chronic pain patients using latent variable mixture modeling within a supervised machine learning framework.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Eating habits and the desire to eat healthier among patients with chronic pain: a registry-based study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Acceptance and Fear-Avoidance Mediate Outcomes of Interdisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation Programs at 12-Month Follow-Up: A Clinical Registry-Based Longitudinal Cohort Study from the Swedish Quality Registry for Pain Rehabilitation (SQRP).Journal of pain research · 2024Article
- Pain relief and associated factors: a cross-sectional observational web-based study in a Quebec cohort of persons living with chronic pain.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Effects of interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation programs on neuropathic and non-neuropathic chronic pain conditions - a registry-based cohort study from Swedish Quality Registry for Pain Rehabilitation (SQRP).BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2023Article
- Can Baseline Characteristics Predict Successful Outcomes after Individual, Physiotherapist-Led Rehabilitation in Patients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain?Pain research & management · 2023Article
- Catastrophizing and acceptance are mediators between insomnia and pain intensity-an SQRP study of more than 6,400 patients with non-malignant chronic pain conditions.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Pain intensity and psychological distress show different associations with interference and lack of life control: A clinical registry-based cohort study of >40,000 chronic pain patients from SQRP.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Digital pain extent is associated with pain intensity but not with pain-related cognitions and disability in people with chronic musculoskeletal pain: a cross-sectional study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2022Article
- Comorbid Conditions in Temporomandibular Disorders Myalgia and Myofascial Pain Compared to Fibromyalgia.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionThe extent to which pain is distributed across the body (spreading of pain) differs largely among patients with chronic pain conditions and widespread pain has been linked to poor quality of life and work disability. A longer duration of pain is expected to be associated with more widespread pain, but studies are surprisingly scarce. Whether spreading of pain is associated with clinical presentation and treatment outcome in patients seen in interdisciplinary multimodal pain rehabilitation programs (IMMRPs) is unclear. The association between spreading of pain and (1) pain duration (2) clinical presentation (eg, pain intensity, pain-related cognitions, psychological distress, activity/participation aspects and quality of life) and (3) treatment outcome were examined.
methodsData from patients included in the Swedish Quality Registry for Pain Rehabilitation were used (n=39,916). A subset of patients that participated in IMMRPs (n=14,666) was used to examine whether spreading of pain at baseline predicted treatment outcome. Spreading of pain was registered using 36 predefined anatomical areas which were summarized and divided into four categories: 1-6 regions with pain (20.6% of patients), 7-12 regions (26.8%), 13-18 regions (22.0%) and 19-36 regions (30.6%).
resultsMore widespread pain was associated with a longer pain duration and a more severe clinical picture at baseline with the strongest associations emerging in relation to health and pain aspects (pain intensity, pain interference and pain duration). Widespread pain was associated with a poorer overall treatment outcome following IMMRPs at both posttreatment and at a 12-month follow-up, but effect sizes were small. DISCUSSION: Spreading of pain is an indicator of the duration and severity of chronic pain and to a limited extent to outcomes of IMMRP. Longer pain duration in those with more widespread pain supports the concept of early intervention as clinically important and implies a need to develop and improve rehabilitation for patients with chronic widespread pain.
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