Advances in Pain Medicine: Diagnosis and Management
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 71
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Pain medicine is a rapidly evolving specialty both from a diagnostic and treatment point of view: the introduction of the concept of nociplastic pain has clarified the dominant pain phenotype in particular in low back pain and therefore in focusing on the type of treatment also in cancer pain.
The methods for measuring pain have been perfected and include differentiated scales and assessment tools. Cognitive behavioral therapy can be used in pain with different etiologies. The application of artificial intelligence in pain medicine promises an improvement in patient outcomes. Research into the introduction of new conotoxins with fewer side effects and multiple routes of administration offers new treatment possibilities.
Recently, invasive procedures such as neuromodulation are focused on the use of different waveforms that act on different anatomical substrates to broaden the positive results and indications for SCS. Accordingly this Special Issue is dedicated to updates in diagnosis and management of pain medicine.
Dr. Alessandro Dario
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- neuropathic pain
- fibromialgia
- low back pain
- nociplastic pain
- artificial intelligence in pain medicine
- evidence-based consensus guidelines
- pain measuring
- cancer pain medicine
- interventional pain medicine
- topic analgesic for chronic pain
- SPECT/CT scan
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