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) |
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□ 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 |
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□ Other nociceptive pain | □_________________. e.g., autonomic dysreflexia headache, migraine headache, surgical skin incision |
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□ 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 |
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□ Other neuropathic pain | □_________________. e.g., carpal tunnel syndrome, trigeminal neuralgia, diabetic polyneuropathy |
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□ Other pain | □_________________. e.g., fibromyalgia, complex regional pain syndrome type I, interstitial cystitis, irritable bowel syndrome |
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□ Unknown pain | □_________________. |