title: Health survey of numbness/pain and its associated factors in Kotohira, Japan.
abstract: We conducted a survey of adults in Kotohira, a town of about 10,000 people located in the Nakatado District of Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. The survey was distributed to 8184 individuals, and effective responses were received from 3863 persons (response rate, 47.2%) during the survey period. Results regarding numbness and pain showed numbness alone in 7.7%, pain alone in 7.2%, both numbness and pain in 6.0%, and neither numbness nor pain in 79.6%. Spine and spinal cord damage was reported present by 5.4%, and absent by 94.6%. Analysis using the Short-Form Health Survey questionnaire, with comparison between subjects reporting both numbness and pain in the extremities and subjects with either numbness or pain alone, showed lower scores for in Short-Form Health Survey subscales (physical functioning, role [physical, emotional], bodily pain, vitality, and mental health). Subjects with numbness alone generally reported no disability in daily life. In a secondary survey, analysis of neurological findings by specialists identified 6 cases of "pain following spinal cord damage" in which spinal cord-related pain developed in the hands or feet. This represented 0.15% of the survey population starting from the primary survey.
authors.affiliation: Multidisciplinary Pain Center, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan.
authors.forename: Shinsuke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Inoue
authors.forename: Masahiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ikeuchi
authors.forename: Keiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Okumura
authors.forename: Masaya
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Chihiro
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kawakami
authors.forename: Tatsunori
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ikemoto
authors.forename: Motohiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kawasaki
authors.forename: Toshikazu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tani
authors.forename: Takahiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ushida
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D006987:Hypesthesia / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011788:Quality of Life; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
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