depression and even worse pain.For the study, the researchers looked at data from 143 older adults with knee osteoarthritis.
The participants kept daily diaries and wore accelerometers — a wearable device for measuring physical activity — for 22 days.Each morning, the participants reported how they felt about their pain that day and the accelerometer would gather information on physical activity and sedentary behavior.After analyzing the data, the researchers found that on mornings when participants catastrophized their pain more than usual, they ended up engaging in less moderate to vigorous physical activity later that day.In addition, the findings show that catastrophizing about pain in the morning led to more time in sedentary behavior.
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