Chronic Pain After Shoulder Arthroplasty

Chronic Pain After Shoulder Arthroplasty: Epidemiology and Risk Factors.

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01900223

Enrollment

786

Registered

2013-07-16

Start date

2013-06-30

Completion date

2013-10-31

Last updated

2014-01-14

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Conditions

Chronic Pain

Brief summary

Chronic pain is relatively common after different types of surgery. The investigators intend to study prevalence, characteristics and risk factors of chronic pain after shoulder arthroplasty, focusing on neuropathic pain characteristics, and risk factors such as preoperative pain, severe acute postoperative pain, age, gender, and pain elsewhere.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

CASE_ONLY

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Patients operated with any shoulder prosthesis between april 2011 and april 2012 in Denmark

Exclusion criteria

* Secondary prosthesis * Bilateral prosthesis * Age below 18 * Reoperated in the same shoulder after the prosthesis

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Current pain intensity	At time of completing the questionnaire, which is sent to patients 1-2 years after their shoulderprosthesis.	Pain score by Numeric Rating Scale 0-10

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
preoperative pain intensity	recalled	Pain intensity by Likert scale

Outcome results