Background The reported prevalence of chronic pain after spinal cord injury (SCI) varies
widely due, in part, to differences in the taxonomy of chronic pain. A widely used
classification system is available to describe subcategories of chronic pain in SCI, but the
prevalence of chronic pain in SCI based on this system is unknown. Objective The primary
objective of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to determine the prevalence of
chronic pain after SCI based on the International Spinal Cord Injury Pain (ISCIP) …

Published studies have reported widely divergent estimates of the prevalence of chronic
pain among individuals with (traumatic) spinal cord injury (SCI). To develop an estimate
based on a synthesis of the research, we used searches of MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO,
and other bibliographic databases and an ancestor search to identify articles published
since 1966 in any language that reported a pain prevalence rate for at least 30 subjects with
certain or likely traumatic SCI. Data on sample makeup, study quality indicators, and pain …