Variability in clinical and neurophysiological evaluation of pain development following acute spinal cord injury: a case report.

Introduction: Chronic neuropathic pain (NeP) often develops following traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI). This case report explores variability in clinical and neurophysiological aspects of pain evaluation in early post-trauma stages.

Case Presentation: A 34-year old female presenting with acute incomplete sensorimotor tetraplegia C4 AIS D was examined by neurological examination and pain assessment at three time points after acute trauma T1 (8 weeks), T2 (11 weeks), and T3 (24 weeks).

Do Chronic Pain Patients Wish Spiritual Aspects to Be Integrated in Their Medical Treatment? A Cross-Sectional Study of Multiple Facilities.

Chronic pain is a complex, multidimensional experience. Spirituality is hypothesized to impact pain experience in various ways. Nevertheless, the role that spirituality plays in multimodal pain therapy remains controversial and, to date, quantitative data on whether and for which patients spiritual aspects should be considered in the treatment of chronic pain is lacking.

[Effectiveness of an individualized multimodal treatment of chronic pain patients : A retrospective real-life analysis with 3-year follow-up].

Background: Chronic pain is a worldwide problem of healthcare along with social and economic factors. The Center for Pain Medicine (CPM) Nottwil offers individualized, interdisciplinary, multimodal pain rehabilitation based on the biopsychosocial approach. The aim of this study was to obtain a real-life analysis of chronic pain patients who were treated at the CPM Nottwil, to understand how they were treated and to analyze the long-term effects of the treatment.

Including the Spiritual Dimension in Multimodal Pain Therapy. Development and Validation of the Spiritual Distress and Resources Questionnaire (SDRQ).

Context: Valid instruments for assessing spiritual resources and distress in pain therapy are scarce. The Spiritual Distress and Resources Questionnaire (SDRQ) was developed to fill this gap.

Goals: The objective of this study was to investigate the SDRQ's psychometric properties.

Evaluation of a standardized internet-based and telephone-based patient monitoring system for pain therapy with transdermal fentanyl.

The aim of the present observational 4-week study was to document the feasibility and utility of telephone-based or Internet-based pain monitoring in patients with chronic cancer or noncancer pain, such as nociceptive or neuropathic pain, using transdermal fentanyl. Pain intensity, treatment tolerability, activities of daily living, quality of life, and patient and physician satisfaction were evaluated in 60 (60% women, 42% opioid-naive) chronic pain patients who were switched from oral pain therapy to transdermal fentanyl therapy because of persisting severe pain. When the total dataset of all patient entries was analyzed, treatment with transdermal fentanyl led to decreases in maximal and mean pain scores as reported by the patients (-14% and -19%, respectively, last observation carried forward vs.