Jin-Hwan Kim, Jae Taek Hong, Chong-Suh Lee, Keun-Su Kim, Kyung-Soo Suk, Jin-Hyok Kim, Ye-Soo Park, Bong-Soon Chang, Deuk Soo Jun, Young-Hoon Kim, Jung-Hee Lee, Woo-Kie Min, Jung-Sub Lee, Si-Young Park, In-Soo Oh, Jae-Young Hong, Hyun-Chul Shin, Woo-Kyung Kim, Joo-Han Kim, Jung-Kil Lee, In-Soo Kim, Yoon Ha, Soo-Bin Im, Sang Woo Kim, In-Ho Han, Jun-Jae Shin, Byeong Cheol Rim, Bo-Jeong Seo, Young-Joo Kim, Juneyoung Lee
STUDY DESIGN: A noninterventional, multicenter, cross-sectional study. PURPOSE: We investigated the prevalence of neuropathic pain (NP) and patient-reported outcomes (PROs) of the quality of life (QoL) and functional disability in Korean adults with chronic low back pain (CLBP). OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE: Among patients with CLBP, 20%-55% had NP. METHODS: Patients older than 20 years with CLBP lasting for longer than three months, with a visual analog scale (VAS) pain score higher than four, and with pain medications being used for at least four weeks before enrollment were recruited from 27 general hospitals between December 2014 and May 2015...
December 2017: Asian Spine Journal