ABSTRACT
In presenting this chapter the authors’ original purpose was to offer a review of established concepts of neuropathic pain, supplemented by discussion of current practices related to its assessment and management. These goals notwithstanding, reports of more than a century of medical observation and research have demonstrated that neuropathic pain is much more than a concept or a single disorder. It is instead an evolving collection of established clinical and experimental conditions, all of which share the perpetuation of pain symptoms or pain-related behavior created by injury to neural tissue other than that involved with simple nociception (Bennett, 1994; Fields, 1987).
