Chronic Pain Assessment

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Acute Pain Assessment is well covered in many articles on WikiMSK, chronic and or Widespread Pain Assessment is more difficult but there are also many relevant articles

• Specific regions: Chronic Neck Pain, Chronic Low Back Pain, Chronic Neck Pain, Chronic Post-Traumatic Neck Pain, and Coccydynia for more information
• Specific conditions: Parkinsons Disease, Smoking and Chronic Pain, Obesity and Chronic Pain, CRPS,
• Other recommended topics: Pain Oriented Sensory Testing, Fibromyalgia, Nociplastic Pain, Neuropathic Pain, Allodynia and Alloknesis, Opioid Deprescribing, Widespread Pain Differential Diagnosis
• Australian Pain Management Network provides a good resource for both patients and Health Professionals/ Trainees. Select the Health Professionals tab to find useful resources
• Faculty of Pain Medicine courses are available by payment such as those at https://www.betterpainmanagement.com/

Taking a good pain history and using a positive therapeutic approach is a skill that can be learnt by practice and observation.

Also ensure you have a MDT virtual/ real in your area to involve in the care of those with chronic, complex and widespread pain.

Suggested Reading

Expect analgesic failure - Moore 2013.pdf - 356 KB (f)

Mechanisms and manifestations in musculoskeletal pain - Graven-Nielsen 2022.pdf - 1.45 MB (f)

Pain Pathways and Nervous System Plasticity - McCarberg 2019.pdf - 668 KB (f)

What brain tells spinal cord - Bannister 2016.pdf - 96 KB (f)

When does acute pain become chronic - Voscopoulos 2010.pdf - 355 KB (f)

When pain gets stuck - Borsook 2018.pdf - 713 KB (f)