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Pain in a Swedish s...
Pain in a Swedish spinal cord injury population
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- Budh Norrbrink, Cecilia (author)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- Lund, Irene (author)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- Ertzgaard, Per, 1958- (author)
- Östergötlands Läns Landsting,Linköpings universitet,Hälsouniversitetet,Rehabiliteringsmedicin,Neurologiska kliniken,Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping
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- Hulting, Claes (author)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- Holtz, Anders (author)
- Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Uppsala
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- Levi, Richard (author)
- Frösunda Center, Solna and Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
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- Werhagen, Lars (author)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- Lundeberg, Thomas (author)
- Spinalis SCI Unit, Karolinska Hospital, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- 2016-07-01
- 2003
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In: Clinical Rehabilitation. - : SAGE Publications. - 0269-2155 .- 1477-0873. ; 17:6, s. 685-690
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- Objective: To describe pain and associated variables in a prevalence group of persons with a sustained spinal cord injury (SCI) in the Swedish capital and its surroundings. Setting: Spinalis SCI Unit (outpatient clinic), Stockholm, Sweden. Design: Assessment over a 12-month period in a yearly health control. Subjects: Four hundred and fifty-six SCI patients. Results: Two hundred and ninety-one out of 456 SCI patients (63.7%) suffered from pain, and in 45.7% of these it was classified as being neurogenic. Aching pain was the most used descriptor (38.5%). The onset of pain was commonly within three months (73.5%). In 70.4% of patients pain occurred below the level of the lesion. Most patients identified pain as coming from one (55.0%) or two (28.2%) body regions. Rating of the general pain intensity on a visual analogue scale (VAS) was 46 out of 100 and rating of the worst pain intensity was 78 out of 100. Ninety-four out of 276 patients (32.3%) considered that their quality of life was significantly affected by pain. Conclusion: Pain was most common in patients with incomplete lesions (ASIA impairment grade D) and there was a correlation between pain and higher mean age at injury and between pain and female gender.
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