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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