@article{819b4f58092342a1868639cae84b3f2d,
title = "International Spinal Cord Injury Pain Classification: Part I. Background and description",
abstract = "Study design: Discussion of issues and development of consensus. Objective: Present the background, purpose, development process, format and definitions of the International Spinal Cord Injury Pain (ISCIP) Classification. Methods: An international group of spinal cord injury (SCI) and pain experts deliberated over 2 days, and then via e-mail communication developed a consensus classification of pain after SCI. The classification was reviewed by members of several professional organizations and their feedback was incorporated. The classification then underwent validation by an international group of clinicians with minimal exposure to the classification, using case study vignettes. Based upon the results of this study, further revisions were made to the ISCIP Classification. Results: An overall structure and terminology has been developed and partially validated as a merger of and improvement on previously published SCI pain classifications, combined with basic definitions proposed by the International Association for the Study of Pain and pain characteristics described in published empiric studies of pain. The classification is designed to be comprehensive and to include pains that are directly related to the SCI pathology as well as pains that are common after SCI but are not necessarily mechanistically related to the SCI itself. Conclusions: The format and definitions presented should help experienced and non-experienced clinicians as well as clinical researchers classify pain after SCI.",
keywords = "classification, neuropathic, nociceptive, pain, spinal cord injury",
author = "Bryce, {T. N.} and F. Biering-S{\o}rensen and Finnerup, {N. B.} and Cardenas, {D. D.} and R. Defrin and T. Lundeberg and C. Norrbrink and Richards, {J. S.} and P. Siddall and T. Stripling and Treede, {R. D.} and Waxman, {S. G.} and E. Widerstr{\"o}m-Noga and Yezierski, {R. P.} and M. Dijkers",
note = "Funding Information: 1Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; 2Clinic for Spinal Cord Injuries, NeuroScience Centre, Rigshospitalet, Faculty of Heatlh Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; 3Danish Pain Research Center, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; 4Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, Miami, FL, USA; 5Department of Physical Therapy, School of Allied Health Professions, Tel Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel; 6Rehabilitation Medicine University Clinic, Danderyds Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; 7Department of Clinical Sciences, Karolinska Institutet Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; 8Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA; 9Pain Management Research Institute, University of Sydney, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia; 10Washington, DC, USA; 11Medizinische Fakult{\"a}t Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany; 12Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; 13VA Connecticut Healthcare, West Haven, CT, USA; 14The Miami Veterans Administration Medical Center, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA and 15Department of Orthodontics, College of Dentistry, Comprehensive Center for Pain Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Correspondence: Dr TN Bryce, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, PO Box 1240, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA. E-mail: thomas.bryce@mssm.edu Development of the International Spinal Cord Injury Pain Classification was made possible by a grant from the Paralyzed Veterans of America, Washington DC to Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Received 9 August 2011; revised 10 November 2011; accepted 11 November 2011; published online 20 December 2011",
year = "2012",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1038/sc.2011.156",
language = "English",
volume = "50",
pages = "413--417",
journal = "Spinal Cord",
issn = "1362-4393",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "6",
}