ArticleFamily practice2023
Nocturnal pain, is the pain different compared with pain during the day? An exploratory cross-sectional study in patients with hip and knee osteoarthritis.
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- Nocturnal Pain in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Single-Center Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Translation, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and Validation of the Measure of Intermittent and Constant Osteoarthritis Pain (ICOAP) Measure into Brazilian Portuguese for Individuals with Knee Osteoarthritis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Comparative analysis of single-dose platelet-rich plasma and hyaluronic acid therapies in knee osteoarthritis: A 12-week follow-up study.Northern clinics of Istanbul · 2025Article
- A Review of Current Approaches to Pain Management in Knee Osteoarthritis with a Focus on Italian Clinical Landscape.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Nocturnal pain and fatigue in middle-aged persons with hip symptoms suspected to be osteoarthritis, is there a link in 10-year follow-up of the CHECK study?Osteoarthritis and cartilage open · 2023Article
- Assessment of Pain in Osteoarthritis of the Knee.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo explore characteristics of nocturnal pain and to identify differences in participants' characteristics and osteoarthritis (OA) symptoms between hip and knee OA participants with and without nocturnal pain.
methodsData for this exploratory cross-sectional study were obtained from an online survey, distributed through social media and patient associations in the period from April 2020 until May 2020, which was conducted in 101 participants with (self-reported) hip or knee OA. Descriptive statistics were used to provide insight into the characteristics of the study population. Pain intensity, localization, dimension, and impact of (nocturnal) pain on sleep were described and compared with daytime pain.
resultsNocturnal pain was reported by 76/101 (75%) participants. Participants with nocturnal pain scored higher visual analogue scale (VAS) scores for their nocturnal pain compared with their pain at the moment (respectively: median VAS score 49.5 vs. 40.0). Their day pain rating indexes of sensory-discriminative dimension were higher compared with their nocturnal pain. Comparison between participants with and without nocturnal pain showed that participants with nocturnal pain were affected by intermittent, constant, and radiating pain. Pain had more impact on their sleep and they scored their pain at its worst higher compared with participants without nocturnal pain.
conclusionIn participants with nocturnal pain (75%), we found that their VAS pain scores were not in harmony with their pain expressed in words. This study increases awareness of nocturnal pain in OA patients in general practice. More research is needed to provide general practitioners possible interventions for patients with OA and nocturnal pain.
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