Pain Management Table 2 SCI pain types according to major classification

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Bryce/Ragnarsson

Cardenas

Donovan

ISAP

Tunks

Above level

  1. Nociceptive
  2. Neuropathic

At level

  1. Nociceptive
  2. Neuropathic

Below level

  1. Nociceptive
  2. Neuropathic

Neurologic

  1. Spinal cord
  2. Transition zone
  3. Radicular
  4. Visceral

Musculoskeletal

  1. Mechanical spine
  2. Overuse
  1. Segmental
  2. Spinal cord
  3. Visceral
  4. Mechanical
  5. Psychogenic

Nociceptive

  1. Musculoskeletal
  2.  Visceral

Neuropathic

  1. Above level
  2. At level
  3. Below level

Above level

  1. Myofascial
  2. Syringomyelia
  3. Non-spinal cord injury

At level

  1. Radicular
  2. Hyperalgesic border reaction
  3. Fracture
  4. Myofascial (incomplete)

Below level

  1. Diffuse burning
  2. Phathom
  3. Visceral
  4. Myofascial (incomplete)

This article was published in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America, 18, Ullrich, Pain Following Spinal Cord Injury, 217-233, Copyright Elsevier (2007).