Peripheral Nerve Injury and Repair

Relationships Among Pain Disability, Pain Intensity, Illness Intrusiveness, and Upper Extremity Disability in Patients With Traumatic Peripheral Nerve Injury

Novak CB, Anastakis DJ, Beaton DE, et al (Univ of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; York Univ, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Washington Univ School of Medicine, St Louis, MO) J Hand Surg 35A:1633-1639, 2010^§

Abstract

Purpose

In patients with a peripheral nerve injury, a simple conceptualization assumes that pain disability is determined by pain intensity. This study evaluated the relationships among pain intensity, illness intrusiveness, and pain disability.

Methods

After we obtained ethics board approval, we enrolled English-speaking adult patients who had experienced an upper extremity peripheral nerve injury 0.5 to 15 years previously. Patients completed the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand (DASH), Illness Intrusiveness Scale, Pain Disability Index, and McGill Pain questionnaires. We used multivariate linear regression to evaluate the variables that predicted pain disability.

Results

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