Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Pain

Chronic pain is a major global public health problem and a leading driver of healthcare use and its associated costs. Clinical management remains challenging because chronic pain is multidimensional and requires a patient-centred approach that is consistent with the current biopsychosocial paradigm....

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description Chronic pain is a major global public health problem and a leading driver of healthcare use and its associated costs. Clinical management remains challenging because chronic pain is multidimensional and requires a patient-centred approach that is consistent with the current biopsychosocial paradigm. Importantly, more than 85% of presentations are labelled “non-specific”, highlighting the limited diagnostic yield of conventional imaging for identifying a single pathoanatomical cause. Pain chronification arises from interacting mechanisms spanning molecular, psychological, and social levels, creating an urgent need for high-quality research that refines diagnostic strategies, improves patient stratification, and enables more targeted care. This Special Issue includes the following topics: imaging and neuroimaging; somatosensory profiling (e.g., quantitative sensory testing); clinical prediction and risk models; biomarkers and digital phenotyping; new proposals for clinically meaningful phenotypes or endotypes; evaluations of diagnostic pathways; and demonstrations of how improved classification informs treatment selection, prognosis, and patient-relevant outcomes. The overarching aim is to move beyond the broad—and often unhelpful—category of “non-specific” chronic pain.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1752102026-04-16T19:36:16Z Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Pain Cuenca-Martínez, Ferran Suso-Martí, Luis Chronic pain Pain diagnostics Pain classification Pain management Pain approach Biopsychosocial thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing Chronic pain is a major global public health problem and a leading driver of healthcare use and its associated costs. Clinical management remains challenging because chronic pain is multidimensional and requires a patient-centred approach that is consistent with the current biopsychosocial paradigm. Importantly, more than 85% of presentations are labelled “non-specific”, highlighting the limited diagnostic yield of conventional imaging for identifying a single pathoanatomical cause. Pain chronification arises from interacting mechanisms spanning molecular, psychological, and social levels, creating an urgent need for high-quality research that refines diagnostic strategies, improves patient stratification, and enables more targeted care. This Special Issue includes the following topics: imaging and neuroimaging; somatosensory profiling (e.g., quantitative sensory testing); clinical prediction and risk models; biomarkers and digital phenotyping; new proposals for clinically meaningful phenotypes or endotypes; evaluations of diagnostic pathways; and demonstrations of how improved classification informs treatment selection, prognosis, and patient-relevant outcomes. The overarching aim is to move beyond the broad—and often unhelpful—category of “non-specific” chronic pain. 2026-04-16T19:36:07Z 2026-04-16T19:36:07Z 2026 book ONIX_20260416T142754_9783725863020_15 9783725863020 9783725863037 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/175210 eng application/octet-stream Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/ https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/12122 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-7258-6303-7 10.3390/books978-3-7258-6303-7 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783725863020 9783725863037 180 CH open access
spellingShingle Chronic pain
Pain diagnostics
Pain classification
Pain management
Pain approach
Biopsychosocial
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing
Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Pain
title Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Pain
title_full Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Pain
title_fullStr Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Pain
title_full_unstemmed Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Pain
title_short Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Pain
title_sort clinical diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain
topic Chronic pain
Pain diagnostics
Pain classification
Pain management
Pain approach
Biopsychosocial
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing
topic_facet Chronic pain
Pain diagnostics
Pain classification
Pain management
Pain approach
Biopsychosocial
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing
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