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Multidimensional Clinical Pain Phenotypes After Spinal Cord Injury

Pages 467-478 | Published online: 09 Oct 2012
 

Abstract

SUMMARY Persistent neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury (SCI) is a serious problem that significantly affects general health and wellbeing over and above what is caused by other medical consequences after SCI. The ideal approach to the management of the neuropathic pain conditions after SCI would be to identify the primary contributing mechanisms of pain in each person and tailor the treatment to these. However, despite significant basic and clinical research progress, this approach remains elusive. One strategy to further this effort is to define neuropathic pain phenotypes based on pain symptoms, sensory function/dysfunction and psychosocial factors, and determine the relationship between these and treatment outcomes and biomarkers including brain imaging. This approach will facilitate the interaction between basic and clinical science and translational research, further the understanding of the mechanisms that contribute to the development and maintenance of neuropathic pain after SCI, and thus the development of effective mechanisms-based pain treatment strategies.

Financial & competing interests disclosure

The manuscript preparation was supported by Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. The author has no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.

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The manuscript preparation was supported by Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. The author has no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed. No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.

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