Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Pain, Second Edition
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2024 | Viewed by 68
Special Issue Editor
Interests: motor imagery; action observation; motor learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Chronic pain is a current public health problem, and countries are spending large amounts of money on its management. The approach seems unclear because it meets a multidimensional problem that must be encompassed in the patient-centered model from a biopsychosocial paradigm. Currently, more than 85% of chronic pain problems are non-specific in origin. This indicates that imaging tests do not provide clear information to establish an accurate pathoanatomical diagnosis. The process of pain chronification is complex, and seems to involve different causative factors, including molecular, individual, and social aspects. We need high-quality research to address the issue of chronic pain diagnosis in order to subclassify patients and try to make better diagnoses and, consequently, better treatments—especially more specific treatments in order to improve the quality of life and activities of daily living in patients with chronic pain.
This Special Issue is aimed at researchers investigating the diagnosis of chronic pain processes including imaging and neuroimaging tests, somatosensory assessments, clinical prediction models, reviews dealing with chronic pain diagnosis, pain subclassifications, etc., as well as those dealing with chronic pain treatments after a more precise and updated diagnosis with respect to large groupings of chronic pain populations that continue to be labelled under the word “non-specific”. With this Special Issue we hope to shed light on this important subject where chronic pain itself is already understood as a clinical entity in itself.
Dr. Ferran Cuenca-Martínez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- chronic pain
- pain diagnostics
- pain classification
- pain management
- pain approach
- biopsychosocial
