Management of pain in individuals with spinal cord injury: Guideline of the German-Speaking Medical Society for Spinal Cord Injury

2019/01/01 by Steffen Franz, Franz, Steffen, Barbara Schulz +29
Medicine · #610 Medical sciences #Medicine #Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation #Pain Management and Opioid Use #Pain Mechanisms and Treatments #Pharmakotherapie #Querschnittlähmung #Schmerzmanagement #central pain syndrome #clinical practice guideline #drug therapy #medizinische Leitlinie #neuropathic pain #neuropathische Schmerzen #nicht-medikamentöse Schmerztherapie #nociceptive pain #non-pharmacological pain therapy #nozizeptive Schmerzen #pain management #spinal cord injury #zentrales Schmerzsyndrom

paper · doi:10.3205/000271

openalex publication_date 2019/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Assessment of SCI-related pain is standardized and respective methods in terms of examination, classification and grading of pain are already in use and validated in German language. In contrast, valid, evidence-based and efficient therapeutic options are limited and ask for further clinical studies, ideally randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses.

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