Mariano Fernandez-Fairen, Carlos Alberto Calderón-Ospina, Juythel Chen, Manuel Duarte-Vega, Freddy Fernández-Villacorta, Felipe Gómez-García, Leonardo López-Almejo, Alfredo Manzano-García, Eduardo Hernández-Méndez Villamil, Camilo Partezani Helito, Delia Ruiz-Rodríguez, Guillermo Salas-Morales, Alfredo Servin-Caamaño, Argelia Lara-Solares, Marcelo Puello-Vales, Grisell Vargas-Schaffer
OBJECTIVES: The term "mixed pain" has been established when a mixture of different pain components (e.g. nociceptive, neuropathic, and nociplastic) are present. It has gained more and more acceptance amongst pain experts worldwide, but many questions around the concept of mixed pain are still unsolved. The sensation of pain is very personal. Cultural, social, personal experiences, idiomatic, and taxonomic differences should be taken into account during pain assessment. Therefore, a Latin American consensus committee was formed to further elaborate the essentials of mixed pain, focusing on the specific characteristics of the Latin American population...
February 11, 2023: Current Medical Research and Opinion