Pain Centre Versus Arthritis

Quantitative Sensory Testing Publications

Brady, SM, Georgopoulos, V, Veldhuijzen van Zanten, JJCS, Duda, JL, Metsios, JS, Kitas, GD, Fenton, SAM, Walsh, DA, McWilliams, DF. The inter-rater and test-retest reliability of three modalities of Quantitative Sensory Testing in healthy adults and people with chronic low back pain or rheumatoid arthritis. Pain Reports (in press, August 2023) 

Kouraki, A, Doherty, M, Fernandes, GS, Zhang, W, Walsh, DA, Kelly, A, Valdes, AM. Different genes may be involved in distal and local sensitisation: a genome-wide gene-based association study and meta-analysis. Eur J Pain 2022, 26, 740-53. doi.org/10.1002/ejp.1902 

Georgopoulos, V, Akin-Akinyosoye, K, Smith, S, McWilliams, DF, Hendrick, P, Walsh, DA. An observational study of centrally facilitated pain in individuals with chronic low back pain. Pain Reports 2022, 7, e1003 

Gowler, PRW, Turnbull, J, Shahtaheri, M, Gohir, S, Kelly, T, McReynolds, C, Yang, J, Jha, RR, Fernandes, GS, Zhang, W, Doherty, M, Walsh, DA, Hammock, BD, Valdes, AM, Barrett, DA, Chapman, V. Clinical and Preclinical Evidence for Roles of Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase in Osteoarthritis Knee Pain. Arthritis Rheum. 2022, 74, 623–633. DOI 10.1002/art.42000 

Kurien T, Kerslake RW, Graven‐Nielsen T, Arendt‐Nielsen L, Auer DP, Edwards K, Scammell BE, Petersen KK. Chronic postoperative pain after total knee arthroplasty: The potential contributions of synovitis, pain sensitization and pain catastrophizing - An explorative study. Eur J Pain 2022, 26 (9), 1979-89. doi.org/10.1002/ejp.2018 

Persson, MSM, Stocks, J, Sarmanova, A, Fernandes, G, Walsh, DA, Doherty, M, Zhang, W. Individual responses to topical ibuprofen gel or capsaicin cream for painful knee osteoarthritis: a series of n-of-1 trials. Rheumatology 2021, 60, 2231–37. doi:10.1093/rheumatology/keaa561 

Akin-Akinyosoye, K, Sarmanova, A, Fernandes, GS, Frowd, N, Swaithes, L, Stocks, J, Valdes, A, McWilliams, DF, Zhang, W, Doherty, M, Ferguson, E, Walsh, DA. Baseline self-report ‘central mechanisms’ trait predicts persistent knee pain in the Knee Pain in the Community (KPIC) cohort. Osteoarthritis Cart. 2020, 28, 173-81 

Iwabuchi, SJ, Xing, Y, Cottam, WJ, Drabek, MM, Tadjibaev, A, Fernandes, GS, Petersen, KK, Arendt-Nielsen, L, Graven-Nielsen, T, Valdes, AM, Zhang, W, Doherty, M, Walsh, D, Auer, DP. Brain perfusion patterns are altered in chronic knee pain:  A spatial covariance analysis of arterial spin labelling MRI. Pain 2020, 161, 1255-63. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001829 

Georgopoulos, V; Akin-Akinyosoye, Zhang, W, McWilliam, DF, Hendrick, P, Walsh, DA. Quantitative Sensory Testing (QST) and predicting outcomes for musculoskeletal pain, disability and negative affect: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Pain 2019;160:1920-1932 

Akin-Akinyosoye, K, Frowd, N, Marshall, L, Stocks, J, Fernandes, G, Valdes, A, McWilliams, DF, Zhang, W, Doherty, M, Ferguson, E, Walsh, DA. Traits associated with central pain augmentation in the Knee Pain in the Community (KPIC) cohort. Pain 2018, 159, 1035-44. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001183 

Kurien T, Arendt-Nielsen L, Petersen KK, Graven-Nielsen T, Scammell BE. Preoperative neuropathic pain-like symptoms and central pain mechanisms in knee osteoarthritis predicts poor outcome 6 months after total knee replacement surgery. The Journal of Pain 2018, 19(11):1329-41. doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2018.05.011 

Joharatnam, N, McWilliams, DF, Wilson, D, Wheeler, M, Pande, I, Walsh, DA. A cross-sectional study of pain sensitivity, disease-activity assessment, mental health, and fibromyalgia status in rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Res. Ther. 2015, 17:11 DOI: 10.1186/s13075-015-0525-5 

Suokas, AK, Walsh, DA, McWilliams, DF, Condon, L, Moreton, B, Wylde, V, Arendt-Nielsen, L, Zhang, W. Quantitative sensory testing in painful osteoarthritis: A systematic review. Osteoarthritis Cart. 2012, 20, 1075-85

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