Reciprocal association between pain and quality of life after newly acquired spinal cord injury.

Maren Westphal Valerie Carrard Céline Braunwalder Caroline Debnar Marcel W M Post Christine Fekete Mayra Galvis Aparicio Anke Scheel-Sailer

Published in: Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation (2024)

Results indicate that pain intensity does not predict changes in QoL during first rehabilitation, and vice versa. Associations between pain intensity and QoL reported by previous studies may be attributable to individual characteristics and timely events that simultaneously influence pain and QoL.

Keyphrases

chronic pain
neuropathic pain
pain management
spinal cord injury
spinal cord
high intensity
case control