Joost Kortlever
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Hand and Upper Extremity Service Boston, MA, USA, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
[ 1 ] - Discrete Pathophysiology is Uncommon in Patients with Nonspecific Arm Pain
Background: Nonspecific symptoms are common in all areas of medicine. Patients and caregivers can be frustrated when an illness cannot be reduced to a discrete pathophysiological process that corresponds with the symptoms. We therefore asked the following questions: 1) Which demographic factors and psychological comorbidities are associated with change from an initial diagnosis of nonspecific...
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