Feline Musculoskeletal Pain Index: Responsiveness and Testing of Criterion Validity

Progress in establishing if therapies provide relief to cats with degenerative joint disease (DJD)-associated pain is hampered by a lack of validated owner-administered assessment methods.That an appropriately developed subjective owner-completed instrument (Feline Musculoskeletal Pain Index-FMPI) to assess DJD-associated impairment would have responsiveness and criterion validity.Twenty-five client-owned cats with DJD-associated pain.FMPI...