Clin Pain.  2019 Dec;18(2):82-87. 10.35827/cp.2019.18.2.82.

Korean Pain Descriptors in Patients with Neuromusculoskeletal Pain

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  • 1Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Catholic University of Daegu School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea. winho606@naver.com

Abstract


OBJECTIVE
To evaluate which Korean pain descriptors are frequently used in the patients with neuromusculoskeletal diseases and compare the frequency of Korean pain descriptor according to age, gender, pain pattern and intensity, and clinical diagnosis. METHOD: Two hundreds sixty nine patients with neuromusculoskeletal diseases were enrolled in this study. The patients were asked to fill out a pain questionnaire using Korean. The Korean pain descriptors were collected and classified according to neurophysiological mechanism. The frequency of Korean pain descriptor was analyzed by age, gender, pain pattern and intensity, and clinical diagnosis. They were divided into axial spine and peripheral joint pain group depending on the location of causal disease and shoulder pain descriptors were divided into intra-articular and bursa group.
RESULTS
Among 24 Korean pain descriptors, "˜arida' was the most common pain descriptor, followed by "˜ssusida' and "˜jjireunda'. When the pain descriptors were classified according to neurophysiological mechanism, superficial somatic pain was the most common, followed by deep somatic pain. There was a significant difference in the frequency of the pain descriptor between axial spine and peripheral joint pain group (p=0.007). The pain descriptor "˜danggida' was used significantly more in the patients with axial spine pain than peripheral joint pain (p=0.024). However, there was no significant difference in other factors.
CONCLUSION
The patients with neuromusculoskeletal diseases expressed their pain using various Korean pain descriptors with stabbing nature and superficial somatic pain. Our results may be helpful to assess and develop a new Korean pain quality measure in the patients with neuromusculoskeletal diseases.

Keyword

Sensation; Musculoskeletal pain; Nociceptive pain; Neuralgia

MeSH Terms

Arthralgia
Diagnosis
Humans
Methods
Musculoskeletal Pain
Neuralgia
Nociceptive Pain
Sensation
Shoulder Pain
Spine
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