Why the study?
What defines clinically important improvement in VAS pain scores after hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement syndrome?
What defines clinically important improvement in VAS pain scores after hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement syndrome?
A decrease of 14.8 points in VAS pain score defines a clinically important improvement after hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement syndrome at minimum 2-year follow-up.
These VAS thresholds may aid outcome interpretation after hip arthroscopy; leaves open prospective validation before routine adoption.
This study identified scores for VAS pain that can be used to define clinically significant outcome after arthroscopic treatment of femoroacetabular impingement syndrome. Specifically, a decrease in pain score of 14.8 was a clinically important improvement in VAS pain, while an absolute score <15.4 or a change of 25.5 represented the upper threshold of VAS pain improvement. Additionally, there were both modifiable and nonmodifiable factors that predicted achieving clinically significant levels of postoperative pain improvement.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Beck et al. (2019) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched 5 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context: