Dr DANIEL MCWILLIAMS DAN.MCWILLIAMS@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Pain mechanisms in rheumatoid arthritis
McWilliams, Daniel F.; Walsh, David A.
Authors
DAVID WALSH david.walsh@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Rheumatology
Abstract
Understanding of the causes and underlying mechanisms of pain in people with RA is rapidly changing. With the advent of more effective disease modifying drugs, joint inflammation is becoming a more treatable cause of pain, and joint damage can often be prevented. However, the long-term prognosis for pain still is often unfavourable, even after inflammation is suppressed. Pain is associated with fatigue and psychological distress, and RA pain qualities often share characteristics with neuropathic pain. Each of these characteristics suggests key roles for central neuronal processing in RA pain. Pain processing by the central nervous system can maintain and augment RA pain, and is a promising target for future treatments. Inflammatory mediators, such as cytokines, may provoke central pain sensitisation in animal models, and both local and systemic inflammation might contribute to central pain augmentation in RA. Controlled trials of treatments that target central pain processing have shown some benefit in people with RA, and might be most effective in individuals for whom central pain augmentation plays a key role. For people with RA who experience persistent pain, identifying underlying pain mechanisms critically determines the balance between escalation of anti-inflammatory and disease-modifying treatments and other strategies to provide symptomatic analgesia.
Citation
McWilliams, D. F., & Walsh, D. A. (2017). Pain mechanisms in rheumatoid arthritis. Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, 35(S107), Article s94-s101
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 22, 2017 |
Publication Date | Oct 20, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Oct 27, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 28, 2024 |
Journal | Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology |
Print ISSN | 0392-856X |
Electronic ISSN | 1593-098X |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 35 |
Issue | S107 |
Article Number | s94-s101 |
Keywords | Rheumatoid arthritis,Pain, Central sensitisation, Competing |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/888794 |
Publisher URL | http://www.clinexprheumatol.org/search.asp?Title=Pain+mechanisms+in+rheumatoid+arthritis&INV=pback |
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