Spinal cord injury’s cruel irony: Loss of function, influx of pain

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Spinal cord injury’s cruel irony: Loss of function, influx of pain

Zahra

Shahtahmasebi

zshahtahmasebi@nzdoctor.co.nz

Monday 29 April 2019, 10:11 AM

Zahra Shahtahmasebi asked how people live with chronic pain after spinal injury, and what the health system is doing, to or failing to do, to help

Pain is not sexy enough… people don’t die from it, so no money is put toward studying it Ben Lucas is always in pain. It comes in constant, excru, Ben Lucas, Pain can be consuming, so it pays to keep your mind busy, says Ben Lucas

Musculoskeletal

Pain

Disability

Auckland

Canterbury

Medicines and Therapies

References

Hadjipavlou G, Cortese A M, Ramaswamy B. Spinal cord injury and chronic pain. BJA Education 2016; 16: 264–268.

Reck T, Landmann G. Successful spinal cord stimulation for neuropathic below-level spinal cord injury pain following complete paraplegia: a case report. Spinal Cord Series and Cases 2017;3 doi: 10.1038/scsandc.2017.49

Fregni F, Boggio P, Lima M et al. A sham-controlled, phase II trial of transcranial direct current stimulation for the treatment of central pain in traumatic spinal cord injury. PAIN 2006; 122: 197–209.

Dones I, Levi V. Spinal cord stimulation for neuropathic pain: current trends and future applications. Brain Sciences 2018;8 doi: 10.3390/brainsci8080138

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