Pain, Functional Limitations, and Aging

Pain, functional limitations, and aging.

OBJECTIVES To examine the relationship between functional limitations and pain across a spectrum of age, ranging from mid life to advanced old age. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING The 2004 Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a nationally representative study of community-living persons aged 50 and older. PARTICIPANTS Eighteen thousand five hundred thirty-one participants in the 2004 ...

Disaggregating pain and its effect on physical functional limitations.

BACKGROUND Pain is a common impairment that limits the abilities of older persons. The purposes of this article are to: (i) describe the distribution of pain location using the McGill Pain Map (MPM) in a community-based cohort of aged subjects; (ii) investigate whether individual areas of pain could be sensibly grouped into regions of pain; (iii) determine whether intensity, frequency, and loca...

Functional MRI Limitations and Aspirations

Most would agree that knowing precisely what was happening in the brain during the act of thinking would help in our pursuit to understand what thinking really is. This chapter describes the basics, limits, and future directions of one of the more effective tools we have to observe the human brain while it is functioning – functional MRI. Functional MRI emerged in the early 1990s, and has since...

The psychological pain hypothesis and its limitations

Heritability of Health and Aging Limitations on Personally Desired Activities

The aim of this study is to estimate heritability of incident limitations on personally desired activities within the eighth decade of life. We measured self-rated ability to perform ten personally desired activities in 1606 male veteran twin pairs at baseline and four years later. At follow-up, 33% of the cohort reported more limitations in desired activities. Among twins who completed both as...