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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2016 Oct 11;98(1):105–113. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2016.09.118

Table 3.

Pain data for participants with UNILATERAL amputation

Transfemoral dysvascular
n=120
Transfemoral trauma
n=266
Transtibial dysvascular
n=366
Transtibial trauma
n=338

N % N % N % N %
Problematic pain sites
 Residual limb pain 36 30.0 89 33.7 125 34.4 136 40.4
 Phantom limb pain 71 60.7 135 51.1 186 51.4 139 41.6
 Knee pain on non-amputated side 31 26.1 96 36.1 74 20.3 118 35.1
 Back pain 41 34.5 114 43.0 134 36.7 144 42.7
 Shoulder pain 28 23.3 62 23.4 69 18.9 77 22.8
Number problematic pain sites
 0 31 25.8 60 22.6 97 26.5 101 29.9
 1 32 26.7 59 22.2 84 23.0 56 16.6
 ≥2 57 47.5 147 55.3 185 50.5 181 53.6

Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD

PROMIS pain interference T-score 55.3 8.9 53.5 8.7 55.9 8.7 54.5 9.2
PROMIS pain intensity (0–10 scale) 3.6 2.3 3.1 2.3 3.6 2.4 3.3 2.5