Quality of Pain Can Be the Best Assessment Tool for Doctors

The Pain and suffering due to any disease mostly helps the doctors to root

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out the problem but a recent study on carpal tunnel syndrome contends has shown that the quality of pain not the intensity should be the key assessment tool for the doctors.

The study included 100 people who were having carpal tunnel syndrome and basically the researchers assessed the sleep quality of those patients. A questionnaire containing various questions regarding the brief pain inventory was also completed by those patients.

If you haven’t heard about this syndrome then I must tell you that Carpal tunnel sydrome is a swelling inside a narrow “tunnel” formed by bone and ligament in the wrist, usually as a result of repetitive motions.

According to the researchers the main goal of this study was to see how pain quality, not pain intensity, is associated with how pain interferes with normal function. This thing was observed by the researchers that specific pain qualities were associated with the patient’s functioning over and above the pain intensity and other measures.

In the current issue of American Pain Society the lead author of the study has stated that “Pain is much more than just intensity and unpleasantness. Knowledge of pain quality, as well as pain intensity, provides additional clues for understanding the impact of pain on a person’s life”.