Open AccessResponse to Letter from Drs. Quintner, Buchanan, and Cohen
Author(s) -
DICKINSON BARRY,
HEAD C. ALVIN,
GITLOW STUART,
OSBAHR, III ALBERT J.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
pain medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.893
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1526-4637
pISSN - 1526-2375
DOI - 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2011.01173.x
Subject(s) - terminology , medicine , pain medicine , neuropathic pain , alternative medicine , value (mathematics) , term (time) , psychiatry , anesthesia , pathology , philosophy , linguistics , computer science , physics , quantum mechanics , anesthesiology , machine learning
To the Editor,The moralizing and dismay expressed by Quintner and colleagues seems to be aimed more directly at pain terminology concepts advanced by the American Academy of Pain Medicine, and not our review of the topic itself including our conclusion that use of the term maldynia does not currently provide any additional prognostic or treatment value over use of the term neuropathic pain. …