Integration of Pain Theories to Guide Knee Osteoarthritis Care

Osteoarthritis is one of the four leading causes of pain. To date, clinicians providing health care to people with knee osteoarthritis pain focus on evaluating pain intensity and its effect on physical function and provide management with foundations in theories of pain including gate control and specificity. Pain theories such as these have been driving pain management and pain research since the seventeenth century, when Rene Descartes …