RT Journal Article
T1 The phenomenology of pain in Parkinson’s disease.
A1 Camacho-Conde, José Antonio
A1 Campos-Arillo, Víctor Manuel
K1 Parkinson, Enfermedad de - Sintomatología
AB Background: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that is thesecond most common disorder after Alzheimer’s disease. PD includes both “motor” and “non-motor” symptoms, one of which is pain. The aim of this study was toinvestigate the clinical characteristics of pain in patients with PD.Methods: This cross-sectional study included 250 patients diagnosed with PD,70% of which had mild to moderate PD (stages 2/3 of Hoehn and Yahr scale). Theaverage age was 67.4 years, and the average duration since PD diagnosis was 7.1years. Relevant data collected from PD patients were obtained from their personalmedical history.Results: The prevalence of pain was found to be high (82%), with most patients(79.2%) relating their pain to PD. Disease duration was correlated with the frequency of intense pain (R: 0.393; P < 0.05). PD pain is most frequently perceived as anelectrical current (64%), and two pain varieties were most prevalent (2.60 ± 0.63).Our findings confirm links between pain, its evolution over time, its multi-modalcharacter, the wide variety of symptoms of PD, and the female sex.Conclusions: Our results demonstrated that the pain felt by PD patients is mainlyfelt as an electrical current, which contrasts with other studies where the pain is described as burning and itching. Our classification is innovative because it is basedon anatomy, whereas those of other authors were based on syndromes.
PB The Korean Pain Society
YR 2020
FD 2020-01-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/30358
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/30358
LA eng
NO Camacho-Conde, J. A., & Campos-Arillo, V. M. (2020). The phenomenology of pain in Parkinson’s disease. The Korean Journal of Pain, 33(1), 90.
NO CC BY-NC
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026