Author(s)

Mª Teófila Vicente Herrero^1*, Mª Victoria Ramírez Iñiguez de la Torre², Luis Reinoso Barbero³

¹Asociacion Española de Especialistas en Medicina del Trabajo, Madrid, Spain Occupational Health and Safety Services of Correos, Valencia, Spain.
²Asociacion Española de Especialistas en Medicina del Trabajo, Madrid, Spain Occupational Health and Safety Services of Correos, Albacete, Spain.
³Asociacion Española de Especialistas en Medicina del Trabajo, Madrid, Spain Occupational Medicine Service Grupo Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Internacional de la Rioja, La Rioja, Spain.

Introduction: Pain with neuropathic characteristics is one of the most limiting as a consequence of injury or disease that affects the somatosensory system. Objective: An assessment protocol is proposed to quantify the impact of neuropathic pain integrating personal, clinical, work and social aspects and to establish guidelines in its management and evolutionary control. Method: The medical literature on neuropathic pain and its impact is reviewed as a basis for including the variables that must be part of the protocol. Results: The variables are quantified individually and by groups of factors. The final result is stratified into four grades (mild, moderate, severe, extreme), which will serve for the subsequent control, monitoring and prevention of risks. Conclusion: The proposed protocol evaluates the impact of neuropathic pain in all aspects of the person who suffers it and quantifies the results establishing degrees for its control, follow-up and clinical, social and occupational intervention.

Neuropathic Pain, Limitations, Assessment, Occupational Health, Occupational Medicine

Vicente Herrero, M. , Ramírez Iñiguez de la Torre, M. and Reinoso Barbero, L. (2020) Proposed Protocol for Neuropathic Pain Assessment. Occupational Diseases and Environmental Medicine, 8, 149-162. doi: 10.4236/odem.2020.84012.