painDETECT: a new screening questionnaire to identify neuropathic components in patients with back pain

By R. Freynhagen, R. Baron, U. Gockel, T. Tölle. Current Medical Research and Opinion, 2006

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Epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of neck pain. (2015, background): “Copyright © and Signs) pain scale.(18,19) For chronic low back pain, multiple studies have indicated a prevalence range of between 17% and 55% for predominantly neuropathic pain in a variety of cohorts, with a median of 41%.”
Persistent pain after joint replacement: Prevalence, sensory qualities, and postoperative determinants (2011, methodology): “The 9-item PainDETECT questionnaire [15], which was developed to identify pain of a neuropathic origin, is scored from 1 to 38, with a score612 indicating that a neuropathic component is unlikely and a score of P19 indicating that a neuropathic component is likely.”
Prevalence of chronic pain with neuropathic characteristics in the general population (2008, neutral): “Keywords: Chronic pain; Neuropathic pain; Epidemiology”
Development and initial validation of an expanded and revised version of the Short‐form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF‐MPQ‐2) (2009, background): “Low back pain was considered a non-neuropathic pain condition in the analyses of the survey data, but an appreciable percentage of chronic low back pain patients have lumbosacral radiculopathy and many others appear to have a mixture of neuropathic and non-neuropathic pain [18,19].”