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Sleep Disturbances and Osteoarthritis
Author(s) -
Pickering MarieEva,
Chapurlat Roland,
Kocher Laurence,
PeterDerex Laure
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
pain practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.899
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1533-2500
pISSN - 1530-7085
DOI - 10.1111/papr.12271
Subject(s) - osteoarthritis , medicine , sleep (system call) , disease , sleep disorder , physical therapy , epidemiology , physical medicine and rehabilitation , quality of life (healthcare) , psychiatry , insomnia , alternative medicine , pathology , nursing , computer science , operating system
Sleep disturbances are particularly troublesome in patients with painful rheumatic disease. This article reviews the literature specifically published on sleep disturbances in osteoarthritis, a prevalent pathology and leading cause of disability. Several aspects of the relationship between sleep and osteoarthritis are discussed, including epidemiology, pathophysiological hypotheses, and treatment outcomes. Sleep is of central importance in the well‐being of patients and should systematically be assessed in patients with osteoarthritis. When needed, a specific treatment of sleep disorders should be associated with an optimal management of pain to achieve synergistic improvements in quality of life. More large‐scale studies are needed to identify predictive factors of sleep impairment in osteoarthritis.