Papers of the Week

Older adults with chronic musculoskeletal pain often suffer from cognitive impairments and diminished lower extremity physical function. Prior work suggests that these impairments may be interrelated, however, the relationship between cognition and spatiotemporal gait performance in this population is understudied. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the association between cognition and spatiotemporal gait performance and determine if cognition mediates the relationship between pain severity and spatiotemporal gait performance in older adults with chronic musculoskeletal pain without cognitive impairment.