PMID- 26425368
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20151001
LR  - 20200930
IS  - 2090-1542 (Print)
IS  - 2090-1550 (Electronic)
IS  - 2090-1542 (Linking)
VI  - 2015
DP  - 2015
TI  - Central Sensitization and Perceived Indoor Climate among Workers with Chronic 
      Upper-Limb Pain: Cross-Sectional Study.
PG  - 793750
LID - 10.1155/2015/793750 [doi]
LID - 793750
AB  - Monitoring of indoor climate is an essential part of occupational health and 
      safety. While questionnaires are commonly used for surveillance, not all workers 
      may perceive an identical indoor climate similarly. The aim of this study was to 
      evaluate perceived indoor climate among workers with chronic pain compared with 
      pain-free colleagues and to determine the influence of central sensitization on 
      this perception. Eighty-two male slaughterhouse workers, 49 with upper-limb 
      chronic pain and 33 pain-free controls, replied to a questionnaire with 13 items 
      of indoor climate complaints. Pressure pain threshold (PPT) was measured in 
      muscles of the arm, shoulder, and lower leg. Cross-sectional associations were 
      determined using general linear models controlled for age, smoking, and job 
      position. The number of indoor climate complaints was twice as high among workers 
      with chronic pain compared with pain-free controls (1.8 [95% CI: 1.3-2.3] versus 
      0.9 [0.4-1.5], resp.). PPT of the nonpainful leg muscle was negatively associated 
      with the number of complaints. Workers with chronic pain reported more indoor 
      climate complaints than pain-free controls despite similar actual indoor climate. 
      Previous studies that did not account for musculoskeletal pain in questionnaire 
      assessment of indoor climate may be biased. Central sensitization likely explains 
      the present findings.
FAU - Sundstrup, Emil
AU  - Sundstrup E
AD  - National Research Centre for the Working Environment, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark ; 
      Institute for Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern 
      Denmark, 5230 Odense, Denmark.
FAU - Jakobsen, Markus D
AU  - Jakobsen MD
AD  - National Research Centre for the Working Environment, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark ; 
      Institute for Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern 
      Denmark, 5230 Odense, Denmark.
FAU - Brandt, Mikkel
AU  - Brandt M
AD  - National Research Centre for the Working Environment, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark ; 
      Physical Activity and Human Performance Group, SMI, Department of Health Science 
      and Technology, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark.
FAU - Jay, Kenneth
AU  - Jay K
AD  - National Research Centre for the Working Environment, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark ; 
      Institute for Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern 
      Denmark, 5230 Odense, Denmark.
FAU - Persson, Roger
AU  - Persson R
AD  - Department of Psychology, Lund University, Box 213, 221 00 Lund, Sweden.
FAU - Andersen, Lars L
AU  - Andersen LL
AD  - National Research Centre for the Working Environment, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark ; 
      Physical Activity and Human Performance Group, SMI, Department of Health Science 
      and Technology, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20150906
PL  - United States
TA  - Pain Res Treat
JT  - Pain research and treatment
JID - 101566863
PMC - PMC4575741
EDAT- 2015/10/02 06:00
MHDA- 2015/10/02 06:01
PMCR- 2015/09/06
CRDT- 2015/10/02 06:00
PHST- 2015/06/08 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2015/08/23 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2015/10/02 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/10/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/10/02 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2015/09/06 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1155/2015/793750 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Pain Res Treat. 2015;2015:793750. doi: 10.1155/2015/793750. Epub 2015 Sep 6.