title: Chronic pain in neuromuscular disease: pain site and intensity differentially impacts function.
abstract: The importance of pain extent (ie, number of body areas with pain) and pain site as factors contributing to dysfunction in persons with chronic, slowly progressive neuromuscular disease (NMD), remains poorly understood. This article discusses the importance of assessing pain site in addition to global pain intensity in patients with chronic, slowly progressive NMD. The importance of addressing pain at multiple sites will have a major impact on future studies assessing interventions to treat pain in this patient population.
authors.affiliation: Unit for the Study and Treatment of Pain-ALGOS, Centre de Recerca en Avaluació i Mesura del Comportament, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.
authors.forename: Jordi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Miró
authors.forename: Kevin J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Gertz
authors.forename: Gregory T
authors.initials: GT
authors.lastname: Carter
authors.forename: Mark P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Jensen
mesh_terms: D001132:Arm; D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000209:etiology; D009468:Neuromuscular Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D010147:Pain Measurement; D012720:Severity of Illness Index