Chronic Pain After Shoulder Arthroplasty

Karen Bjørnholdt

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Pain

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01900223

KTB-003

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 786 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No 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

Trial design

786 participants in 1 patient group

Shoulder prosthesis bearer