Clinical chart review of spinal cord injured pain

Clinical chart review of 49 cases with spinal cord injured pain was performed. Retrospective data about the characteristics of patients, the level of injury, the completeness of injury and the etiology was collected. Of pathogenesis of spinal cord injury, degenerative disease was 25 subjects (51%), 12 was traumatic (24%), 4 was vascular (8%) and 4 was neoplastic disease (8%). Thirty two subjects have injured at the cervical level (65%), 13 at the thoracic level (27%) and 4 at the lumbosacral level (8%). At-level neuropathic pain was present in 19 subjects (39%), below-level neuropathic pain was present in 42 subjects (85%). Gabapentin was effective in 24 patients (41%), clonazepam was effective in 17 (30%) and tricyclic antidepressants was effective in 21 patients (38%). We analized relationship between the characteristics of SCI pain and the result of various evaluation; Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HAD), Pain Disability Assessment Scale (PDAS) and McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ).