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- Title
Does pain intensity after total knee arthroplasty depend on somatosensory functioning in knee osteoarthritis patients? A prospective cohort study.
- Authors
Vervullens, Sophie; Meert, Lotte; Smeets, Rob J. E. M.; Verbrugghe, Jonas; Verdonk, Peter; Meeus, Mira
- Abstract
The objective of this study is to determine whether the change in pain intensity over time differs between somatosensory functioning evolution profiles in knee osteoarthritis (KOA) patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA). This longitudinal prospective cohort study, conducted between March 2018 and July 2023, included KOA patients undergoing TKA in four hospitals in Belgium and the Netherlands. The evolution of the Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) subscale pain over time (baseline, 3 months, and 1 year post-TKA scores) was the outcome variable. The evolution scores of quantitative sensory testing (QST) and Central Sensitization Inventory (CSI) over time (baseline and 1 year post-TKA scores) were used to make subgroups. Participants were divided into separate normal, recovered, and persistent disturbed somatosensory subgroups based on the CSI, local and widespread pressure pain threshold [PPT] and heat allodynia, temporal summation [TS], and conditioned pain modulation [CPM]. Linear mixed model analyses were performed. Two hundred twenty-three participants were included. The persistent disturbed somatosensory functioning group had less pronounced pain improvement (based on CSI and local heat allodynia) and worse pain scores 1 year post-TKA (based on CSI, local PPT and heat allodynia, and TS) compared to the normal somatosensory functioning group. This persistent group also had worse pain scores 1 year post-TKA compared to the recovered group (based on CSI). The study suggests the presence of a "centrally driven central sensitization" subgroup in KOA patients awaiting TKA in four of seven grouping variables, comprising their less pain improvement or worse pain score after TKA. Future research should validate these findings further. The protocol is registered at clinicaltrials.gov (NCT05380648).
- Subjects
NETHERLANDS; BELGIUM; TOTAL knee replacement; KNEE osteoarthritis; KNEE pain; COHORT analysis; LONGITUDINAL method; PAIN threshold
- Publication
Clinical Rheumatology, 2024, Vol 43, Issue 6, p2047
- ISSN
0770-3198
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10067-024-06976-7