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Classification of Chronic Pain

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Advances in Chronic and Neuropathic Pain

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This chapter will provide a broad overview of the prevalence of chronic pain in the worldwide population along with a brief historical context to the current terminology and framework of pain taxonomy. It will also highlight the process the International Association for the study of Pain underwent to align pain terms and diagnoses with the current version of the ICD-11. As you will learn the current pain taxonomy is a living framework to develop common terminology that could help direct clinical care, research, and education while aligning with the current iteration of the international classifications of diseases (ICD) codes.

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  1. Medical Director Sports and Performance Medicine, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA

    Troy Henning

  2. Medical Director Rehabilitation and Performance Medicine, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA

    Steven Stanos

  3. Pain Medicine, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA

    Wilson Chang

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    Jeimylo de Castro

  2. Institute Medical Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent, UK

    Yasser El Miedany

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Henning, T., Stanos, S., Chang, W. (2022). Classification of Chronic Pain. In: de Castro, J., El Miedany, Y. (eds) Advances in Chronic and Neuropathic Pain. Contemporary Rheumatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10687-3_1

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