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- Title
Pain management strategies among persons with long-term shoulder pain after stroke – a qualitative study.
- Authors
Lindgren, Ingrid; Brogårdh, Christina; Gard, Gunvor
- Abstract
Objective: To explore strategies that persons with persistent shoulder pain after stroke use to manage their pain in daily life. Design: A qualitative study using semi-structured face-to-face interviews, analysed by content analysis. Setting: A university hospital. Subjects: Thirteen community-dwelling persons (six women; median age: 65 years; range 57–77) with shoulder pain after stroke were interviewed median two years after the pain onset. Results: An overall theme 'Managing shoulder pain by adopting various practical and cognitive strategies' emerged from the analysis. Three categories were identified: (1) practical modifications to solve daily life problems; (2) changed movement patterns and specific actions to mitigate the pain, by non-painful movements, avoidance of pain-provoking activities and various pain distracting activities and (3) learned how to deal with the pain mentally. Several strategies were used simultaneously and they were experienced successful to various degrees. Conclusion: The findings in the present study indicate that persons with persistent shoulder pain after stroke use both practical and cognitive strategies to manage their pain.
- Subjects
ACADEMIC medical centers; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; CONTENT analysis; INTERVIEWING; LIFE skills; RESEARCH methodology; RESEARCH funding; SHOULDER pain; PAIN management; QUALITATIVE research; ACTIVITIES of daily living; INDEPENDENT living; STROKE patients; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Clinical Rehabilitation, 2019, Vol 33, Issue 2, p357
- ISSN
0269-2155
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0269215518802444