Consistent pattern between physical activity measures and chronic pain levels: the Tromsø Study 2015-2016
Epidemiological literature on the relationship between physical activity and chronic pain is scarce and inconsistent. Hence, our aim was to assess the relationship applying comprehensive methodology, including self-reported and accelerometer measures of physical activity and different severity level...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/27791 2023-05-15T18:34:27+02:00 Consistent pattern between physical activity measures and chronic pain levels: the Tromsø Study 2015-2016 Fjeld, Mats Kirkeby Årnes, Anders Engdahl, Bo Lars Morseth, Bente Hopstock, Laila Arnesdatter Horsch, Alexander Stubhaug, Audun Strand, Bjørn Heine Nielsen, Christopher Sivert Steingrímsdóttir, Ólöf Anna 2022-09-08 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27791 https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002773 eng eng Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins Pain Fjeld MK, Årnes A, Engdahl B, Morseth B, Hopstock LA, Horsch A, Stubhaug A, Strand BH, Nielsen CS, Steingrímsdóttir OA. Consistent pattern between physical activity measures and chronic pain levels: the Tromsø Study 2015-2016. Pain. 2022 FRIDAID 2053976 doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002773 0304-3959 1872-6623 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27791 Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) openAccess Copyright 2022 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed acceptedVersion 2022 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002773 2022-12-15T00:02:36Z Epidemiological literature on the relationship between physical activity and chronic pain is scarce and inconsistent. Hence, our aim was to assess the relationship applying comprehensive methodology, including self-reported and accelerometer measures of physical activity and different severity levels of chronic pain. We used data from the Tromsø Study (2015-2016). All residents in the municipality, aged 40 years and older were invited to participate (n=32,591, 51% women). A total of 21,083 (53% women) reported on questionnaires. Additionally, 6,778 participants (54% women) were invited to wear accelerometers (6,125 with complete measurements). Our exposure measures were self-reported leisure time physical activity, exercise frequency, duration and intensity and two accelerometer-measures (steps per day and minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity per day). Outcome measurements were chronic pain and moderate-to-severe chronic pain. We used Poisson regression to estimate chronic pain prevalence and prevalence ratios for each physical activity measure, with adjustments for sex, age, education level, smoking history, and occupational physical activity. Our main analyses showed an inverse dose-response relationships between all physical activity measures and both severity measures of chronic pain, except that the dose-response relationship with exercise duration was only found for moderate-to-severe pain. All findings were stronger for the moderate-to-severe pain outcomes than for chronic pain. Robustness analyses gave similar results as the main analyses. We conclude that an inverse dose-response association between physical activity and chronic pain is consistent across measures. To summarize, higher levels of physical activity is associated with less chronic pain and moderate-to-severe chronic pain. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tromsø University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Tromsø Pain Publish Ahead of |
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Epidemiological literature on the relationship between physical activity and chronic pain is scarce and inconsistent. Hence, our aim was to assess the relationship applying comprehensive methodology, including self-reported and accelerometer measures of physical activity and different severity levels of chronic pain. We used data from the Tromsø Study (2015-2016). All residents in the municipality, aged 40 years and older were invited to participate (n=32,591, 51% women). A total of 21,083 (53% women) reported on questionnaires. Additionally, 6,778 participants (54% women) were invited to wear accelerometers (6,125 with complete measurements). Our exposure measures were self-reported leisure time physical activity, exercise frequency, duration and intensity and two accelerometer-measures (steps per day and minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity per day). Outcome measurements were chronic pain and moderate-to-severe chronic pain. We used Poisson regression to estimate chronic pain prevalence and prevalence ratios for each physical activity measure, with adjustments for sex, age, education level, smoking history, and occupational physical activity. Our main analyses showed an inverse dose-response relationships between all physical activity measures and both severity measures of chronic pain, except that the dose-response relationship with exercise duration was only found for moderate-to-severe pain. All findings were stronger for the moderate-to-severe pain outcomes than for chronic pain. Robustness analyses gave similar results as the main analyses. We conclude that an inverse dose-response association between physical activity and chronic pain is consistent across measures. To summarize, higher levels of physical activity is associated with less chronic pain and moderate-to-severe chronic pain. |
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Fjeld, Mats Kirkeby Årnes, Anders Engdahl, Bo Lars Morseth, Bente Hopstock, Laila Arnesdatter Horsch, Alexander Stubhaug, Audun Strand, Bjørn Heine Nielsen, Christopher Sivert Steingrímsdóttir, Ólöf Anna |
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Fjeld, Mats Kirkeby Årnes, Anders Engdahl, Bo Lars Morseth, Bente Hopstock, Laila Arnesdatter Horsch, Alexander Stubhaug, Audun Strand, Bjørn Heine Nielsen, Christopher Sivert Steingrímsdóttir, Ólöf Anna Consistent pattern between physical activity measures and chronic pain levels: the Tromsø Study 2015-2016 |
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Fjeld, Mats Kirkeby Årnes, Anders Engdahl, Bo Lars Morseth, Bente Hopstock, Laila Arnesdatter Horsch, Alexander Stubhaug, Audun Strand, Bjørn Heine Nielsen, Christopher Sivert Steingrímsdóttir, Ólöf Anna |
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Consistent pattern between physical activity measures and chronic pain levels: the Tromsø Study 2015-2016 |
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Consistent pattern between physical activity measures and chronic pain levels: the Tromsø Study 2015-2016 |
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Consistent pattern between physical activity measures and chronic pain levels: the Tromsø Study 2015-2016 |
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consistent pattern between physical activity measures and chronic pain levels: the tromsø study 2015-2016 |
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