The multiple faces of pain in motor neuron disease: a qualitative study to inform pain assessment and pain management.

CONCLUSIONS: Pain in motor neuron disease seems to have certain and multiple characteristics, which is why there is a need to develop and implement pain assessment methods adapted to this population. Such methods may help make pain more predictable, and increase the possibilities to provide effective and individually tailored pain treatment. IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATION Pain is a common, but often neglected, ailment in motor neuro disease, which deserves more attention from health care. Staff should provide information about the pain being possible to treat successfully with medication, by contrast to the possibility of curing the disease itself. Pain assessments should be implemented during the entire course of the disease, covering a time frame long enough to cover characteristic fluctuations of pain. Whenever possible, facilitate the performance of painful activities of daily living as much as possible to make room for engagement in other personally valued activities of importance for individual quality of life. PMID: 31014130 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research