Why Your Doctor Is Not Taking Your Arthritis Pain Serious Enough

According to a new study, if you suffer arthritis, chances are that your doctor is not taking your condition seriously enough.

Even if they listen to you, in the back of their mind, most doctors are thinking your pain is not as bad as you describe.

This is especially true about one of the most common types of arthritis.

In June 2016, Dr. Isabel Castrejon and her team from Chicago’s Rush University Medical Centre presented a paper at the annual congress of the European League Against Rheumatism in which they argued that rheumatologists often underestimate the conditions of patients with osteoarthritis.

They gave osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis patients a multidimensional health assessment questionnaire on which to record their physical function, pain, and fatigue. In addition, patients completed a symptom checklist and a self-reported joint count.

The researchers then compared the patients’ perception of their condition with their physicians’ perception of their condition and found some major discrepancies:

1. Physicians and patients agreed about disease severity in one-half of osteoarthritis and in two thirds of rheumatoid arthritis cases.

2. On a 10-point scale, one third of osteoarthritis patients ranked their condition to be two points or more worse than their physicians did, while only one fifth of rheumatoid arthritis patients gave a two points or more worse assessment than their physicians did.

3. In 10 percent of osteoarthritis and 15 percent of rheumatoid arthritis cases, physicians ranked the conditions two points or worse than the patients did.

Therefore, physicians are more likely to underestimate the severity of osteoarthritis than of rheumatoid arthritis and are more likely to agree with their rheumatoid arthritis than their osteoarthritis patients about the severity of their conditions.

Both types of arthritis should be taken equally seriously.

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