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Patients critical about doctos's knowledge of neuropathic pain in SCI

How do community-dwelling individuals with a traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) see their chronic pain and how do they acquiring information. In this study the authors used a semi-structured interview and interviewed 12 individuals experiencing sipinal cord injury (SCI)-related chronic pain. This is neuropathic pain of central origine.

The SCI patients described using a variety of sources to obtain information about chronic pain including health care providers, other SCI-patients and the Internet. Participants preferred to have chronic pain information available to them on an as needed basis.

The conclusions of the study:

Individuals with SCI have numerous questions about their chronic pain and use a variety of information sources to answer them. Many are dissatisfied with the level of knowledge that family physicians have about SCI-related chronic pain. ^[1]

Jan M. Keppel Hesselink, MD, PhD, march 2010

Source:

Disability & Rehabilitation 2010, Vol. 32, No. 2 : Pages 114-124Questions that individuals with spinal cord injury have regarding their chronic pain: A qualitative study by Carrie Norman, Jacqueline L. Bender, Jaime Macdonald, Marcia Dunn, Scott Dunne, Bo Siu, Sander L. Hitzig, Alejandro R. Jadad, Judith Hunter

Referenties

[1]: Norman C, Bender JL, Macdonald J, Dunn M, Dunne S, Siu B, Hitzig SL, Jadad AR, Hunter J. | Questions that individuals with spinal cord injury have regarding their chronic pain: a qualitative study. | Disabil Rehabil. | 2010;32(2):114-24.