Mechanisms and treatment strategies of weather–related pain: In clinical settings

Abstract

It is said that chronic pain turns worse when weather worsens than before. However, there are few articles showing weather and the relations of the pain. Our clinic is a medical institution of the pain clinic single department, and most of the patients having a medical examination are accompanied by chronic pain. In addition, we have the list Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) in all consultation patients foreign than 2013 at consultation. After checking association about the weather with VAS at consultation, in temperature, the humidity, the atmospheric pressure, it was thought that a change of the atmospheric pressure was related to the strength of the pain. By the disease distinction, we recognized meaningful correlation in herpes zoster referred pain, osteoarthritis of the knee, osteoarthritis of the hip in VAS at most atmospheric pressure drop quantity and consultation by the division at specific time.