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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 9.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Clin Rheumtol. 2014 Apr;9(2):197–276. doi: 10.2217/ijr.14.10

Figure 5. Complex nature of pain in osteoarthritis.

Figure 5

Graph demonstrating potential contributing factors to OA pain. The multiple trajectories are shown to highlight that the relation between cartilage degradation, osteophytes, synovitis, bone marrow lesions, osteochondral cysts, muscle/ligament damage, psychosocial factors and comorbidity do not always appear to be linearly correlated from emerging studies.

OA: Osteoarthritis.