The challenge of evaluating and managing pain in people with haemophilia: which interplay between pain and sleep?

Chantrain, Valérie-Anne [UCL]

Valérie-Anne Chantrain, PT, MSc, PhD candidate at the Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium, gave a talk called, “The impact of pain on sleep and quality of life”. She found that in terms of sleep, chronic pain patients spend less time asleep, have a greater delay in sleep onset; experience poorer sleep efficiency, and have arousals. Chantrain says that sleep deprivation leads to cytokines secretion, which leads to morning interleukin, which leads to rheumatoid arthritis, arthritis, hemophilic arthropathy and joint pain, and swelling and joint destruction. Proper sleep evaluation is important, including cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia.