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How to Study Chronic Postsurgical Pain: The Example of Neuropathic Pain

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Chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) is a common clinical situation which is still poorly assessed and often treated too late. An understanding of the neuropathic or inflammatory nature of CPSP will lead to an appropriate therapeutic approach. In everyday practice and in the majority of treatment studies, pain assessment is based on validated scales or questionnaires and simple clinical examination tools. Sophisticated investigations (electrophysiology, psychophysical techniques, or functional cerebral imaging) are reserved for pathophysiological studies or for clinical trials seeking to understand the mechanism of action of analgesic drugs. Postsurgical neuropathic pain (PSNP), due to its frequency, its relative homogeneity and its rather stereotyped time of onset, offers an excellent model for clinical research into neuropathic pain, which has been little used until now.

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Dubray, C. (2014). How to Study Chronic Postsurgical Pain: The Example of Neuropathic Pain. In: Mick, G., Guastella, V. (eds) Chronic Postsurgical Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04322-7_1

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