Clinical Guidelines: Pain Science

Acute Pain

• Schug SA, Palmer GM, Scott DA, Alcock M, Halliwell R, Mott J, editors. Acute pain management: scientific evidence. Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists; 2020 Dec.
• Hsu JR, Mir H, Wally MK, Seymour RB. Clinical practice guidelines for pain management in acute musculoskeletal injury. Journal of orthopaedic trauma. 2019 May;33(5):e158.
• Chou R, Gordon DB, de Leon-Casasola OA, Rosenberg JM, Bickler S, Brennan T, Carter T, Cassidy CL, Chittenden EH, Degenhardt E, Griffith S. Management of Postoperative Pain: a clinical practice guideline from the American pain society, the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, and the American Society of Anesthesiologists' committee on regional anesthesia, executive committee, and administrative council. The journal of pain. 2016 Feb 1;17(2):131-57.
• SASA Consensus Group. Acute Pain Guidelines. South African Pharmaceutical Journal. 2016;83(9):15-33.

Chronic Pain

• Schofield P, Dunham M, Martin D, Bellamy G, Francis SA, Sookhoo D, Bonacaro A, Hamid E, Chandler R, Abdulla A, Cumberbatch M. Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines on the management of pain in older people–a summary report. British Journal of Pain. 2022 Feb;16(1):6-13.
• Guideline NG193 NICE. Chronic pain (primary and secondary) in over 16s: assessment of all chronic pain and management of chronic primary pain. Methods. 2021 Apr;10.
• The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN). SIGN 136: Management of Chronic Pain: A national clinical guideline. 2019; August (revised)
• How to Explain Central Sensitization to Patients with ‘Unexplained’ Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: Practice Guidelines. Nijs J, van Wilgen CP, Van Oosterwijck J, van Ittersum M, Meeus M. Man Ther, 2011; 16(5): 413-18.
• American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Chronic Pain Management. Practice guidelines for chronic pain management: an updated report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Chronic Pain Management and the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. Anesthesiology. 2010 Apr;112(4):810-33.

Neuropathic Pain

• Chetty S, Kamerman P, Ouma J, Baalbergen E, Bhigjee AI, Raath R, Raff M, Salduker S. Clinical practice guidelines for management of neuropathic pain: expert panel recommendations for South Africa: guidelines. South African Family Practice. 2013 Mar 1;55(2):143-58.
• NeuPSIG Guidelines on Neuropathic Pain Assessment. Haanpää M, Attal N, Backonja M, Baron R, Bennett M, Bouhassira D, Cruccu G, Hansson P, Haythornthwaite JA, Iannetti GD, Jensen TS, Kauppila T, Nurmikko TJ, Rice AS, Rowbotham M, Serra J, Sommer C, Smith BH, Treede RD. Pain, 2011; 152(1): 14-27.
• Neuropathic Pain: The Pharmacological Management of Neuropathic Pain in Adults in Non-Specialist Settings. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (2010).

Condition Specific

Fibromyalgia

• Macfarlane GJ, Kronisch C, Dean LE, Atzeni F, Häuser W, Fluß E, Choy E, Kosek E, Amris K, Branco J, Dincer Fİ. EULAR revised recommendations for the management of fibromyalgia. Annals of the rheumatic diseases. 2017 Feb 1;76(2):318-28.
• 2012 Canadian Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Fibromyalgia Syndrome. Fitzcharles MA, Ste-Marie PA, Goldenberg DL, Pereira JX, Abbey S, Choinière M, Ko G, Moulin D, Panopalis P, Proulx J, Shir Y. Canadian Rheumatology Association, 2012.
• Ottawa Panel Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines for Aerobic Fitness Exercises in the Management of Fibromyalgia: Part 1. Brosseau L, Wells GA, Tugwell P, Egan M, Wilson KG, Dubouloz CJ, Casimiro L, Robinson VA, McGowan J, Busch A, Poitras S, Moldofsky H, Harth M, Finestone HM, Nielson W, Haines-Wangda A, Russell-Doreleyers M, Lambert K, Marshall AD, Veilleux L. Phys Ther, 2008; 88(7): 857-871.
• Ottawa Panel Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines for Strengthening Exercises in the Management of Fibromyalgia: Part 2. Brosseau L, Wells GA, Tugwell P, Egan M, Wilson KG, Dubouloz CJ, Casimiro L, Robinson VA, McGowan J, Busch A, Poitras S, Moldofsky H, Harth M, Finestone HM, Nielson W, Haines-Wangda A, Russell-Doreleyers M, Lambert K, Marshall AD, Veilleux L. Phys Ther, 2008; 88(7): 873-886.

CRPS

• Harden RN, McCabe CS, Goebel A, Massey M, Suvar T, Grieve S, Bruehl S. Complex regional pain syndrome: practical diagnostic and treatment guidelines, 5th Edition. Pain Medicine. 2022 May 1;23(Supplement_1):S1-53.
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Practical Diagnostic and Treatment Guidelines, 4th Edition. Harden RN, Oaklander AL, Burton AW, Perez RSGM, Richardson K, Swan M, Barthel J, Costa B, Graciosa JR, Bruehl S. Pain Med, 2013; 14(2): 180-229.
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome in Adults: UK Guidelines for Diagnosis, Referral and Management in Primary and Secondary Care. Royal College of Physicians (2012).

Cancer

• Lamacraft G, Bechan S. South African guidelines for the treatment of cancer pain: South African Cancer Pain Guidelines Working Group. Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia. 2015 Jan 2;21(1):2-3.