Hiroshige Jinnouchi, Masahiko Kiyama, Akihiko Kitamura, Ko Matsudaira, Hironobu Kakihana, Mina Hayama-Terada, Isao Muraki, Eiko Honda, Takeo Okada, Kazumasa Yamagishi, Hironori Imano, Hiroyasu Iso
Low back and knee pain, as major symptoms and early signs of osteoarthritis, have restricted healthy life expectancy, and numerous guidelines have recommended therapeutic exercise as the first-line treatment for chronic pain. Proportions of medical and exercise consultation use for those pain have been unclear, and these may change in the future. We performed a cross-sectional study of 2,954 persons aged over 30 years in 2017 as a part of the Circulatory Risk in Communities Study. A generalized linear model with logit link and 11-year age-group moving averages were used to estimate sex- and age-specific average proportions of lifetime pain, chronic pain, and dysfunctional chronic pain of the low back and knee, and history of medical and exercise consultation use...
May 2024: Preventive Medicine Reports