Combining goal setting and achievement with occupational therapy to improve pain, psychological factors and physical activity in patients after high tibial osteotomy: A non-randomized controlled study.

Background: Psychological factors contribute to chronic pain and may lead to physical inactivity and poor functional outcomes.

Purpose: We conducted a non-randomized controlled study to evaluate the effectiveness of goal setting and achievement following occupational therapy (OT) intervention to improve pain, psychological factors, and physical activity among patients after high tibial osteotomy (HTO).

Method: We analyzed the data of 31 patients who underwent HTO, allocated into OT intervention and control groups.

The mediating effect of psychological factors on the relationship between pain intensity and wrist joint function: a longitudinal study with mediation analysis.

Purpose: Psychological factors and pain intensity are associated with wrist function. However, the mediating role of psychological factors in the relationship between pain intensity and wrist function in distal radius fractures remains unclear. We performed mediation analysis to investigate how psychological factors mediate the relationship between pain intensity and wrist function.

Effects of using activity diary for goal setting in occupational therapy on reducing pain and improving psychological and physical performance in patients after total knee arthroplasty: A non-randomised controlled study.

Background: Psychological factors have been reported to affect chronic pain and may lead to inactivity after total knee arthroplasty. This study aimed to determine whether the use of an activity diary for goal setting during occupational therapy would reduce pain, and improve psychological and physical performance in patients after total knee arthroplasty.

Methods: A total of 41 total knee arthroplasty participants from two cohorts were recruited in the study and allocated by convenience to either the experimental group using an activity diary (n = 20) or the control group (n = 21).