Neuropathic pain syndromes include many different clinical conditions, where people may describe various pain types, like ongoing pain, occasional flare-ups, and pain caused by stimuli (like allodynia and hyperalgesia). A single treatment approach for these syndromes may lead to challenges in successfully managing pain for these individuals.

A questionnaire to assess different symptoms of neuropathic pain would be very useful helpful to identify the type and intensity of various pain symptoms.

This standardized tool can identify and measure five important dimensions of the heterogeneous category of neuropathic pain and is responsive to treatment effects.