Link Between Weather And Chronic Pain Can Be Possible

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The link between weather and chronic pain,  may somehow provide answers to the age old belief that climate changes may have an impact on one’s body.

Link between weather and chronic pain

This, after a study conducted in the United Kingdom, involving some 9000 participants reveals that the chronic pain often occurs during the wet season, subsides when the dry season comes, then makes a comeback when the weather becomes rainy again.

The results have not been published yet, but were the highlighted findings of research conducted by smartphone app called “Cloudy with a Chance of Pain.” The test participants were asked to track their conditions daily.

The researchers are still hoping to get additional respondents by participating in the ongoing tests using the application, particularly those who are suffering from chornic pain conditions like arthritis and joint pains to name a few.

“Once the link is proven, people will have the confidence to plan their activities in accordance with the weather,” says Will Dixon, professor of digital epidemiology at the University of Manchester’s School of Biological Sciences and the scientific lead for the project. “In addition, understanding how weather influences pain will allow medical researchers to explore new pain interventions and treatments.”

Corroborated studies

There have been studies in the past that supports the findings like one such report published in the American Journal of Medicine back in 2007 where barometric pressure changes along with ambient temperature have been linked with the recurrence of the severity of osteoarthritis.

But program developers for the smartphone app are focused on generating results as a primary indicator of findings in this field, without developing any bias on the existence of other similar studies conducted in the past.

“We know that mood plays an important role in the relationship between weather and pain, so we will be looking at this in the final analysis,” says Louise Cook, the project manager for Cloudy with a Chance of Pain. “The app asks participants to record a range of factors which may impact on their pain, such as mood, well-being, sleep quality, exercise and time spent outdoors, so we can account for these.”

The developers admit that the current findings are still not conclusive enough to help portray a scientific conclusion, saying that there’s still a long way to go and a lot of validations, questions to be answered and challenges to overcome before they see the fruits ready for picking.

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