Nociceptive and neuropathic components both contribute to chronic pain. Since these components require different pain management strategies, correct pain diagnosis before and during treatment is important. Freynhagen et al. (2006) reported that they had developed and validated the pain-DETECT questionnaire (PD-Q) to detect neuropathic components in chronic low back pain patients. They also reported that 37% of unselected cohort of chronic LBP patients had predominantly neuropathic pain. However, the extent to which neuropathic components relate to the pathomechanism of pain deriving from osteoarthritis of hip joint remains unknown. The purpose of this study was to utilize PD-Q to investigate the relationship between neuropathic components and pain deriving from osteoarthritis of the hip joint. Between March and August 2010, 125 patients with osteoarthritis of hip joint completed PD-Qs about their pain. From this data set, we investigated whether or not the patients’ pain contained neuropathic components.Introduction
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