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First received: September 07, 2023

Clinical Trial: Optimizing Pain Self-Management in Total Knee Arthroplasty

Study Status: Completed

Recruit Status: RECRUITING

Condition: Osteo Arthritis Knee

Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL


Official Title: Optimizing Pain Self-Management in Total Knee Arthroplasty

Brief Summary: The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy of a positive affect enhancing intervention designed to reduce pain and augment reward system function in knee osteoarthritis (KOA) patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA).The scientific premise is that patient use of a positive emotion generative practice - savoring meditation, which has been demonstrated to reduce pain in experimental laboratory settings, enhanced with a pain neuroscience education component about reward system dysfunction as a…

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