[Pain in paraplegic and tetraplegic patients]

Pain is a common complain in patients with spinal cord injury. Deafferentation, nociceptive stimuli and psychological component may both contribute in pain generating. Main importance of clinical evaluation may be pointed out since level of injury and complete or incomplete lesion may affect the expression of symptomatic pain and projection of neurological pain. Closed to symptomatic approach, pain treatment in spinal cord injured people consist in medical and rehabilitation. Chronic neurological pain remains still difficult and may take in account psychological factors.