Letter to editor: Identifying early risk factors for chronic pain development following vertebral fractures: a single-center prospective cohort study
Hina Vaish · 2025
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Hina Vaish writes a letter in 2025 about a study that sought early risk factors for long term pain after spine fractures. Such fractures cause much illness, and early prediction of lasting pain can guide rehabilitation. Vaish praises the single center cohort study for tackling a timely question and for its possible value in planning timely care.
Several gaps are raised for future work. Scan measures of fracture shape, collapse, alignment, and nearby fractures could add structural insight to pain paths. No advance sample size calculation was reported, and a rule for such models suggests a far larger group would be needed for the number of predictors used. Vaish urges a combined clinical and scan based model.
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| CREATOR | Hina Vaish |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |