Abstracts tagged "pain"

Abstract Number: 1246 • ACR Convergence 2025
Myo Vs. Myo-fascial Injection for Myofascial Trigger Points. Is There Really a Difference? A Randomized Controlled Trial
seda yildiz¹, bugra ince¹ and Halil ibrahim candal², ¹izmir sehir hastanesi, izmir, Turkey, ²ızmir sehir hastanesi, izmir
Background/Purpose: Experimental and clinical studies suggest that fascial structures play a critical role in the pathogenesis and pain mechanisms of myofascial pain syndrome (MTrP). It…
Abstract Number: 1227 • ACR Convergence 2025
The Composition of Circulating Immune Cells is Associated with Nociplastic Pain in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Tyler Therron¹, Meghan Mayer², Cecilia Stumpf³, Gelis Galarcé Lugo⁴, Morgan Langereis⁵, Kathleen Aren⁶, Mary Carns⁵, Cally Mills⁵, Cheol Min Lee⁷, Vanessa Manada De Lobos², Carla Marie Cuda⁵, Yvonne Lee⁵ and Deborah Rachelle Winter⁸, ¹Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²Northwestern University, Chicago, ³Northwestern University, Elmhurst, IL, ⁴Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Zionsville, IN, ⁵Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁶Northwestern University Division of Rheumatology, Chicago, IL, ⁷Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ⁸Northwestern University, Skokie, IL
Background/Purpose: Over half of patients with RA report clinically meaningful pain, despite treatment with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs). While joint inflammation is a known cause…
Abstract Number: 0814 • ACR Convergence 2025
Pain Patterns in a Multicenter Randomized Trial of Early RA – Link Between Initially Sustained Joint Inflammation and Subsequent Non-inflammatory Pain Outcomes
Annie Brink¹, Johan Karlsson Wallman², Jon T Einarsson¹, Meliha Kapetanovic¹, Elisabeth Mogard¹, Elisabet Lindqvist¹, Carmen Roseman¹, Kristina Lend³, Merete Hetland⁴, Mikkel Ostergaard⁵, Kim Horslev-Petersen⁶, Dan Nordstrom⁷, Tuulikki Sokka-isler⁸, Bjorn Gudbjornsson⁹, Gerður María Gröndal⁹, Marte Heiberg¹⁰, Espen Haavardsholm¹⁰, Michael Nurmohamed¹¹, Anna Rudin¹², Ronald van Vollenhoven¹³, Till Uhlig¹⁰, Jon Lampa¹⁴ and Tor Olofsson², ¹Lund University, Skane University Hospital, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Rheumatology, Lund, Sweden, ²Lund University, Skane University Hospital, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Rheumatology, Lund, Skane Lan, Sweden, ³Department of Rheumatology and Amsterdam Rheumatology Center, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam; Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Center for Molecular Medicine (CMM), Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁴Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research (COPECARE) and DANBIO, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup; Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁵Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark, ⁶Danish Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, University Hospital of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg; Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, ⁸Department of Medicine and University of Eastern Finland, Jyväskylä Central Hospital, Juväskylä, Finland, ⁹Landspitali University Hospital; Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, ¹⁰Center for treatment of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases (REMEDY), Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ¹¹Amsterdam Rheumatology and Immunology Center, Reade; Department of Rheumatology and Amsterdam Rheumatology Center, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ¹²Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy of University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, ¹³Department of Rheumatology, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ¹⁴Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Center for Molecular Medicine (CMM), Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Emerging data indicate an uncoupling between pain and inflammation during the RA disease course, and comorbid fibromyalgia – thought to stem from central pain…
Abstract Number: 0317 • ACR Convergence 2025
“No matter how great my doctor is, he hasn’t had a knee replacement, he doesn’t understand all that pain” Program Evaluation of the Moving Well Peer Coach Intervention for Total Knee Replacement
Cara Murphy¹, Sarah Young², Vanessa Madrigal³, Noelia Hernandez⁴, Daniel Garcia⁵, Yuliana Dominguez Paez⁶, Monika Safford³, Iris Navarro-Millan⁷ and Mackenzie Brown⁸, ¹HSS, New York, NY, ²Weill Cornell Medicine, Johnson City, NY, ³Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, ⁴Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ⁵Weill Cornell, Brooklyn, NY, ⁶Albert Einstein College of Medicine, The Bronx, NY, ⁷Weill Cornell Medicine, Hospital for Special Surgery, Poughkeepsie, NY, ⁸Weill Cornell Medicine, Brooklyn, NY
Background/Purpose: Moving Well was a pre-habilitation peer coach intervention aimed at reducing levels of anxiety, depression, and pain among individuals undergoing total knee replacement (TKR)1.…
Abstract Number: 2623 • ACR Convergence 2025
Disease Activity is a Novel Imaging Biomarker Associated with Knee Pain: Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative
Jeffrey Driban¹, Jonggyu Baek², Julieann Patarini², Emily Kirillov³, Nhung Vo³, Michael Richard³, Ming Zhang⁴, Matthew Harkey⁵, Grace Lo⁶, Kate Lapane², Shao-Hsien Liu², Charles Eaton⁷, James Mackay⁸, Joshua Harvey² and Timothy McAlington⁹, ¹University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Marlborough, NH, ²UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, ³Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, ⁴Boston University, Westford, MA, ⁵Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, ⁶Baylor College of Medicine / MEDVAMC, Houston, TX, ⁷Brown University, Pawtucket, RI, ⁸University of Cambridge; Norwich Medical School, San Diego, CA, ⁹UMass Chan School of Medicine, Arlington, MA
Background/Purpose: Barriers to developing effective osteoarthritis (OA) therapies include the lack of standardized definitions for disease progression and structural endpoints that reliably predict changes in…
Abstract Number: 2085 • ACR Convergence 2025
Estimating the Association between Effusion-synovitis and Knee Pain in a Subset of Participants with Radiographic Knee Osteoarthritis: Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI)
Dagoberto Robles¹, Greg Gilles², Nathaniel H. Christiansen³, Luke Grawer⁴, Karim Jayyusi⁴, Ali Shaikh⁴, Rongrong Tang⁵, Mihra S. Taljanovic⁴, Jeffrey Duryea⁶, Edward J. Bedrick⁵ and C. Kent Kwoh⁷, ¹University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ²University of Arizona Arthritis Center, The University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, ³University of Arizona, Stockton, NJ, ⁴University of Arizona, Tucson, ⁵The University of Arizona Arthritis Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, ⁶Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁷The University of Arizona Arthritis Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Background/Purpose: Even though knee pain is ubiquitous in knee osteoarthritis (KOA) patients, currently there are limited treatment options which are only minimally or moderately efficacious…
Abstract Number: 1647 • ACR Convergence 2025
Clinical Phenotypes of Participants with Radiographic Osteoarthritis Attaining Patient Acceptable Symptom State in the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study
Sarah Tilley¹, Michael LaValley², Brooke McGinley³, Cora Lewis⁴, James Torner⁵, David Felson³ and Tuhina Neogi⁶, ¹Boston University School of Medicine, Somerville, MA, ²Boston University School of Public Health, Arlington, MA, ³Boston University, Boston, MA, ⁴The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁵University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁶Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a leading cause of pain and disability in older adults marked by progressive joint degeneration. Symptom trajectories vary: some experience persistent…
Abstract Number: 1247 • ACR Convergence 2025
Relation of Measures of Pain Sensitization to Widespread Pain
ZHIQIANG WANG¹, Sarah Tilley², Laura Frey Law³, Cora Lewis⁴, Michael Nevitt⁵, Kosaku Aoyagi⁶, Chunyi Wen⁷, Changhai Ding¹ and Tuhina Neogi⁸, ¹Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China (People's Republic), ²Boston University School of Medicine, Somerville, MA, ³Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁴The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁵University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁶University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, ⁷The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China (People's Republic), ⁸Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Widespread pain (WSP) is thought to be related to alterations in nociceptive signaling such as pain sensitization. Whether pain sensitization predisposes to an increase…
Abstract Number: 1226 • ACR Convergence 2025
Preliminary Findings in the Validation of the Modified Pain and Symptom Assessment Tool in Juvenile Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Daniella Schocken¹, Mark Connelly², Sabrina Gmuca³, Andrea Ramirez⁴, Mary Ellen Riordan⁵, Tracy Ting⁶, Susmita Kashikar-Zuck⁷ and Jennifer Weiss⁸, ¹Children's Mercy Kansas City, Tampa, FL, ²Children’s Mercy Kansas City/University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO, ³Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ⁵Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ, ⁶Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁷University of Cincinnati College of Medicine; Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁸Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital and Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Hackensack, NJ
Background/Purpose: Diagnosing juvenile fibromyalgia (JFM) in youth with chronic musculoskeletal (MSK) pain is challenging in the absence of a validated diagnostic tool. The Pain and…
Abstract Number: 0783 • ACR Convergence 2025
Pain reduction and functional improvements following a non-invasive biomechanical intervention for gait rehabilitation may explain a reduction in healthcare claims. An observational study
Eric Freeman and William Vanderveer, Redefine Healthcare. Orthopedic Pain & Spine Center,, New Jersey
Background/Purpose: Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions significantly impact public health in the United States, affecting approximately 128 million adults and resulting in over $600 billion in annual…
Abstract Number: 0316 • ACR Convergence 2025
Increased Synovial Inflammation, Xist Escape Gene Expression and Knee Pain in Females with Osteoarthritis
Bella Mehta¹, Miguel Otero², Michael Mazzucco³, Jenelys Ruiz-Ortega⁴, Caryn Hale⁴, Fuadur Omi⁴, Syed Henah Balkhi⁵, Purva Singh³, Samantha Lessard³, Wei Wang⁴, Maryam Aslam⁴, Tristan Maerz⁶, Peter Sculco³, Anne-Marie Malfait⁷, Xiaoshun Li⁸, Yiyuan Wu⁹, Shady Younis¹⁰, William Robinson¹¹, Daniel Ramirez¹², Edward DiCarlo¹² and Dana Orange⁵, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, Jersey City, NJ, ²Hospital For Special Surgery, New York, ³Hospital For Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁴The Rockefeller University, New York, ⁵The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, ⁶University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁷Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, ⁸Hospital For Special Surgery, Ridgewood, NY, ⁹Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ¹⁰Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ¹¹Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ¹²Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: MRI evidence of synovitis and bone marrow lesions, but not cartilage degeneration associate with pain in osteoarthritis (OA). In this work, we integrated clinical,…
Abstract Number: 2552 • ACR Convergence 2025
Effects of 360° Virtual Reality Embodiment Videos on Pain in Hand Osteoarthritis: A Within-Subject Pre-Post Study
David Vo¹, Robert Edwards² and Nancy Baker³, ¹Tufts University, Huntington Beach, CA, ²Brigham and Womens Hospital, Chestnut Hill, MA, ³Tufts University, Medford, MA
Background/Purpose: Osteoarthritis (OA) is associated with chronic pain in the joints, which affects many individuals’ daily function and quality of life. The sense of embodiment…
Abstract Number: 2082 • ACR Convergence 2025
Pharmacokinetic Profile of MM-II Following a Single Intra-Articular Injection in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis in a Phase 2b Randomized, Controlled, Dose-Ranging Trial
Thomas Schnitzer¹, Xavier Chevalier², Helene Rovsing³, Edith Lau⁴, Sidsel Boll⁵, Ballari Brahmachari⁶, Richard Chou⁷, Tarini Joshi⁸, Roni Wechsler⁹, Sveta Weiner¹⁰, Mudgal Kothekar¹¹, Asger Bihlet¹² and Philip Conaghan¹³, ¹Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²Henri Mondor Hospital, University Paris XII UPEC, Créteil, France, ³Sanos Clinic, Gandrup, Denmark, ⁴Hong Kong Center for Clinical Research, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ⁵Sanos Clinic, Vejle, Denmark, ⁶Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd., mumbai, Maharashtra, India, ⁷Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc., Princeton, NJ, ⁸Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, Mumbai, India, ⁹Moebius Medical, Tel Aviv, Israel, ¹⁰Sun Pharma Advanced Research Company Limited, Princeton, NJ, ¹¹Sun Pharma Advanced Research Company Limited, Andheri (E), Princeton, NJ, ¹²NBCD A/S, Herlev, Denmark, ¹³University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: MM-II is a first-in-class investigational treatment for knee OA pain that consists of a one-time IA injection of empty liposomes comprised of phospholipids dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine…
Abstract Number: 1644 • ACR Convergence 2025
Longitudinal Trajectory Models to Assess Pain and Risk of Difficult-to-Treat Rheumatoid Arthritis
Misti Paudel¹, Leah Santacroce², Nancy Shadick³, Michael Weinblatt⁴ and Daniel Solomon⁵, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity, Boston, MA, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, Waban, MA, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Prior studies have observed that patient-reported outcomes, such as pain, are risk factors for progression to difficult-to-treat RA (D2T-RA), a state of multi-treatment failure.…
Abstract Number: 1241 • ACR Convergence 2025
Beyond Pain Severity in Psoriatic Arthritis: Pain Catastrophizing Independently Impacts Disease Burden and Quality of Life
Kyra Chen¹, Uma Scher² and Rebecca Haberman³, ¹NYU Grossman School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health Psoriatic Arthritis Center, New York, ²NYU School of Medicine, Scarsdale, NY, ³NYU Langone Health, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Pain remains a major burden in psoriatic arthritis (PsA), often persisting despite effective control of synovial inflammation. This persistent pain may prevent patients from…

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