Measurement of chronic pain in companion animals: Discussions from the Pain in Animals Workshop (PAW) 2017
2019
Abstract In the face of increasing recognition and interest in treating
chronic painin companion animals, we struggle with a lack of therapeutic options. A significant barrier to the development of new therapeutics, or the critical evaluation of current therapies, is our inability to accurately measure
chronic painand its impact on companion animals. Over the last 20 years, much progress has been made in developing methods to measure
chronic painvia subjective and objective methods - particularly in owner assessment tools and measurements of limb use and activity. Most work has been focused on chronic
joint painconditions, but there has been relatively little work in other areas of
chronic pain, such as neuropathic and
cancer pain. Although progress has been made, there is a considerable interest in improving our assessment of
chronic pain, as evidenced by the multiple disciplines across industry, academia, and clinical practice from the veterinary and human medical fields that participated in the
Painin
AnimalsWorkshop held at the National Institutes of Health in 2017. This review is one product of that meeting and summarizes the current state of knowledge surrounding the measurement of
chronic pain(musculoskeletal, cancer, neuropathic), and its impact, in cats and dogs.
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