Chronic spinal cord injury pain: Pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments and treatment effectiveness

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 433-440

  Heutink, Matagne ^a   Post, Marcel W M ^a   Wollaars, Marieke M ^a,b   Van Asbeck, Floris W A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ZonMw The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development   (Netherlands)

^c De Hoogstraat ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

pain; Spinal cord injury; treatment effectiveness

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTICONVULSANTS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79951668237     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2010.498557     Document Type: Article

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