Experienced pain after stroke: a cross-sectional 5-year follow-up study.
Emma WesterlindRamanjit SinghHanna C PerssonKatharina S SunnerhagenPublished in: BMC neurology (2020)
Pain is common 5 years post-stroke and the treatment is not perceived as optimal. The persons experiencing more frequent pain seem to rate their health and recovery worse than the persons experiencing less frequent pain. Most of the factors associated with more frequent pain were treatable and this emphasize the importance of standardised follow-up care that takes pain into consideration.