La douleur neuropathique (DN) poursuit sa crise identitaire. L'enjeu majeur est-il la taxonomie ou le dépistage ?

Over the last 10 years, a large body of work has been devoted to top neuropathic pain and appropriate diagnostic tools for pain. The Association internationale pour l'étude de la douleur (IASP) is currently considering a new set of taxonomic definitions. One of the advantages of standardized diagnostic tools is to enable large epidemiological studies, revealing the prevalence of neuropathic pain, estimated from 5 to 10% in the general population. The DN4 questionnaire appears to be the most reliable and simplest tool to detect neuropathic pain in daily practice, while the new grading system proposed by the IASP task force seems to be convenient for specialists and research.