Patients will be introduced to the use of a mobile application for their smartphone to record the Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA). This app will ask the patients to assess their pain and function two times daily for 2 months.
After 1 month and at the end of the 2 months, follow-up visits will be performed and patients will be asked to retrospectively evaluate the pain that they suffered and the level of function they had during the last month.
Symptomatic patients
Patients able to give informed consent and to follow the protocol of the study (i.e. able to use a smartphone)
Patients >18 years
BMI <35 and >18.5
Patients unable to follow the protocol of the study (i.e. unable to use a smartphone, not owning a smartphone or unwilling to download or use the application)
Patients with a diagnosis of a musculoskeletal injury but without symptoms
Patients without a radiological examination confirming the diagnosis of musculoskeletal disease
Patients with planned surgery in the following 60 days
patients with musculoskeletal chronic pain with a clinical and imaging diagnosis of an orthopaedic disease such as knee osteoarthritis, hip osteoarthritis, shoulder osteoarthritis, ankle osteoarthritis, rizoathrosis, meniscectomy treatment, rotator cuff tendinopathy, low-back pain, Achille tendinopathy, patellar tendinopathy,and tennis elbow.
Cohort
Prospective
Not listed
Difference in pain level
difference between the level of pain collected within the first month of mobile application and the level of pain reported through a retrospective recall-based assessment on the 0-10 Numerical Rating Scale
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