Neuropathic Pain Medication and Antidepressant Use after Disability Pension in Patients with Spinal Cord Stimulation for Persistent Spinal Pain Syndrome.

Autor: Kaijankoski H; Departments of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, PB 100, KYS 70029, Kuopio, Finland.; University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland., Nissen M; Neurosurgery, Kuopio University Hospital, PB 100, 70029 KYS, Kuopio, Finland., Ikäheimo TM; Neurosurgery, Kuopio University Hospital, PB 100, 70029 KYS, Kuopio, Finland., von Und Zu Fraunberg M; Neurosurgery, Oulu University Hospital, Kajaanintie 50, Oulu 90220, Finland.; University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland., Airaksinen O; Departments of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, PB 100, KYS 70029, Kuopio, Finland.; University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland., Huttunen J; Neurosurgery, Kuopio University Hospital, PB 100, 70029 KYS, Kuopio, Finland.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Pain research & management [Pain Res Manag] 2024 Jan 31; Vol. 2024, pp. 4953758. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jan 31 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1155/2024/4953758
Abstrakt: Background: Treatment of persistent spinal pain syndrome (PSPS) is challenging. Chronic pain associated with PSPS can lead to an impaired ability to work.
Objective: To obtain information on whether receiving a disability pension (DP) affects pain and pain treatments in retiring working-age PSPS patients. Neuropathic pain medication and antidepressant use were considered as an indicator of neuropathic pain.
Methods: The study group comprised 129 consecutive PSPS patients with spinal cord stimulation (SCS) devices implanted at Kuopio University Hospital Neurosurgery between January 1, 1996, and December 31, 2014. Purchase data of gabapentinoids, tricyclic antidepressants, and serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors from January 1995 to March 2016, as well as the data on working ability, were retrieved from national registries.
Results: The data showed that 28 of 129 (21.7%) SCS permanent patients had a DP, and 27 had a sufficient follow-up time (two years before and one year after DP). Most patients (61%) used neuropathic pain medications during the follow-up, while 44% used antidepressants. Most patients (70%, n  = 19) retired because of dorsopathies. The dose of gabapentinoids started to increase before the DP; after the DP, the doses started to increase again after the decrease but remained at a lower level.
Conclusions: Neuropathic pain medication and antidepressant use suggest that pain continues after the DP-that is, pensioners continue to experience inconvenient chronic pain. Resources for patient care are therefore needed after the DP. However, the DP reduces the dose increase of gabapentinoids; the dose is higher immediately before retirement than at the end of the follow-up.
Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
(Copyright © 2024 Hanna Kaijankoski et al.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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