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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 5.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Rev Phys Rehabil Med. 2013;25(3-4):159–172. doi: 10.1615/CritRevPhysRehabilMed.2013007944

Table 1. International Spinal Cord Injury Pain (ISCIP) Classification9.

Tier 1: Pain type Tier 2: Pain subtype Tier 3: Primary pain source and/or pathology (write or type in)
□ Nociceptive pain □ Musculoskeletal pain □_________________.
e.g., glenohumeral arthritis, lateral epicondylitis, comminuted femur fracture, quadratus lumborum muscle spasm
□ Visceral pain □_________________.
e.g., myocardial infarction, abdominal pain due to bowel impaction cholecystitis
□ Other nociceptive pain □_________________.
e.g., autonomic dysreflexia headache, migraine headache, surgical skin incision
□ Neuropathic pain □ At level SCI pain □_________________.
e.g., spinal cord compression, nerve root compression, cauda equine compression
□ Below Level SCI pain □_________________.
e.g., spinal cord ischemia, spinal cord compression
□ Other neuropathic pain □_________________.
e.g., carpal tunnel syndrome, trigeminal neuralgia, diabetic polyneuropathy
□ Other pain □_________________.
e.g., fibromyalgia, complex regional pain syndrome type I, interstitial cystitis, irritable bowel syndrome
□ Unknown pain □_________________.