NeuPSIG guidelines on neuropathic pain assessment

Maija Haanpää1, Nadine Attal, Miroslav Backonja

  • 1Rehabilitation ORTON, Helsinki, Finland Department of Neurosurgery, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland INSERM U-987, Centre d'Evaluation et de Traitement de la Douleur, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, APHP, Boulogne-Billancourt, France Université Versailles Saint-Quentin, France Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA Division of Neurological Pain Research and Therapy, Department of Neurology, Universitatsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany Institute of Health Research, Lancaster University, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK Department of Neurology, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy Pain Center, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Clinical Pain Research, Karolinska University Hospital/Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, London, UK Danish Pain Research Center and Department of Neurology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark Korso-Koivukylä Health Centre, Vantaa, Finland Network of Academic Health Centres, Departments of General Practice and Primary Healthcare, Institute of Clinical Medicine and Department of National Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Pain Research Institute, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Department of Anaesthetics, Pain Medicine and Intensive Care, Imperial College London, London, UK Department of Neurology, QCSF Pain Clinic Research Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA Department of Neurology, MC Mutual & Neuroscience Technologies, Barcelona Science Park, Barcelona, Spain Department of Neurology, University of Würzburg, Germany Centre of Academic Primary Care, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Center for Biomedicine and Medical Technology Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.

Pain
|September 21, 2010
PubMed
Summary

Updated guidelines for neuropathic pain assessment recommend screening questionnaires and clinical exams for diagnosis. Quantitative sensory testing and skin biopsy aid in specific cases, with standardized scales for measuring pain intensity and treatment effects.

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