- Benjamin J F Dean, consultant hand surgeon and researcher
- University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, UK
- Botnar Research Centre, Oxford
- benjamin.dean{at}ndorms.ox.ac.uk
Kang and colleagues have concisely summarised the definitions and diagnosis of chronic pain.1 There are several major problems underlying the decision to label chronic pain a diagnosis and to subsequently dichotomise this complex entity into “primary” and “secondary” subtypes. The extensive links between the drug industry and the International Association for the Study of Pain …