Chronic Pain After Shoulder Arthroplasty

Completed

• Conditions: Chronic Pain

• Registration Number: NCT01900223
• Lead Sponsor: Karen Bjørnholdt

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-06
• Study First Submitted: 2013-07-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-07-11
• Study First Posted: 2013-07-16
• Primary Completion: 2013-10
• Study Completion: 2013-10
• Status Verified: 2014-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-01-13
• Last Update Posted: 2014-01-14

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 786

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
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 Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
preoperative pain intensity	recalled	Pain intensity by Likert scale