Table of Contents

EDITORIAL

The role of patient preference in evidence-based practice for chronic musculoskeletal pain conditions
Nicola Adams

REVIEW ARTICLE

Painful diabetic neuropathy
Nabil Majid

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

The body posture pain scale: Assessment of pediatric sickle cell pain intensity
Marc Zabalia, Lynn M Breau and Christine Marie-Moustapha

Impact of a new care pathway on attendance on a residential chronic pain management programme (PMP)
Lucie Knight, Nicole Jamani and Amy Cowburn

Labour epidural analgesia: Do we monitor its efficacy?
Hanlie du Plessis and Joyce Reid

Prevalence of pain in family practice: Gender issues
Nevenka Krcevski Skvarc

Patient and clinician global ratings of change following interdisciplinary treatment for chronic pain
John Kowal, Keith G Wilson, Kimberly Corace, Peter R Henderson and Joyce L D’Eon

Assessment of different anesthetic techniques in mandibular molars with irreversible pulpitis
José AS Salomão, José AB Ferraz and Antonio M da Cruz Filho

Antecedents of chronic pain: Patient view on cause
Fiona MacKichan, Joy Adamson and Rachael Gooberman-Hill

A network of psychologists specialized in treating pain patients in the North of the Netherlands
Gerbrig J Versteegen

The impact of opioid use on treatment completion and outcomes in patients undergoing a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program for chronic pain
Mark Petter, Susan Battista and Richard Gross

Effect of the combined intra-articular administration of morphine and methylprednisolone in patients with knee osteoarthritis
Chrystiany Joseti de Souza, Adriana Machado Issy and Rioko Kimiko Sakata

Comparison of the analgesic effect of systemic and regional clonidine for upper limb surgery
Daniela Cristina Ikeda, Ana Laura Albertoni Giraldes, Adriana Machado Issy and Rioko Kimiko Sakata