​According to estimates, a fifth of the world's population will be affected by chronic pain, for example caused by osteoarthritis. Persistent pain is a global problem that leads to a deteriorating quality of life for millions of people and costing society dearly. And problems with osteoarthritis are only going to increase as the general population is ageing and becomes more sedentary and obese.

Today, many treatments and interventions unfortunately prove to be without effect for patients and are thus useless and costly. But there is hope! Pain research from AAU provides knowledge about the individual osteoarthritis patient’s pain mechanisms, so that doctors and researchers in the future can predict which type of treatment may – or may not – have a pain-relieving effect for the individual patient.

 

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Associate Professor, Kristian Kjær Petersen

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Strategic Advisor Lone Bechmann, the Faculty of Medicine, Aalborg University, lbec@adm.aau.dk