Chronic pain epidemiology from the patients' perspectives: A study on multidimensional chronic pain measurement

Chronic pain epidemic in this era questioned the traditional medical definition of pain as a proxy, i. e. nociception of a disease, and precipitated its conceptual migration towards the status as an independent condition threatening population health. Evidences on chronic pain's pathways involving central sensitization and its stronger interaction with perceptual-behavioral characteristics have also been found, discerning it from acute pain mechanisms. To implement such paradigm change to health practice and research, accurate measurement of pain as a psycho-somatic spectrum comprised of individual characteristics in the perception and reaction to sensation is necessary.
Source: The Journal of Pain - Category: Materials Science Authors: Source Type: research