Pain intensity if obviously important if you suffer from osteoarthritis, but the type of pain you have may also have a large say in how it affects your life.
Pain is described differently be each person but common terms keep being used. "Burning", "Stabbing", Throbbing" are all common.
A recent article looked at the type of pain as well as how strong it was and found that the quality of the pain dictated the amount of sleep disruption and disability it caused, over and above the actual intensity of the reported pain.
See details here at Osteoarthritis News
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