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. 2024 Nov 15;15(4):739-750.
doi: 10.1007/s13167-024-00383-3. eCollection 2024 Dec.

Pain chronification risk assessment: advanced phenotyping and scoring for prediction and treatments tailored to individualized patient profile

Igor Martuliak  1 , Olga Golubnitschaja  2 , Lubos Chvala  3 , Marko Kapalla  1 , Miroslav Ferencik  1 , Michala Bubeliny  3 , Michal Venglarcik  4 , Ladislav Kocan  5
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Pain chronification risk assessment: advanced phenotyping and scoring for prediction and treatments tailored to individualized patient profile

Igor Martuliak et al. EPMA J. .

Abstract

Acute pain is a physiologic, protective life-important warning neurological signal indicating multi-level tissue modulations caused by a broad spectrum of health adverse events such as stress overload, mechanical trauma, ischemia-reperfusion, sterile and infection-triggered inflammation, single- and multi-organ damage, acute and chronic wounds, tissue remodeling and degeneration, amongst others. On the other hand, pain chronification results in a pathologic transformation from the protective pain signaling into persistent debilitative medical condition with severe consequences including but not restricted to phenotype-specific behavioral patterns, reduced quality of life, and cognitive and mood disorders. Who is predisposed to an increased vs. decreased pain sensitivity and to the pain chronification? The motivation of personalized medicine that "same size does not fit all" is getting obvious also for an advanced approach in algesiology. Consequently, an in-depth patient stratification is essential for the paradigm change in overall pain management from currently applied reactive medical services to the cost-effective predictive, preventive, and personalized medicine (PPPM/3PM) in primary (reversible damage to health and targeted protection against health-to-disease transition) and secondary (personalized protection against disease progression) care. To this end, specifically innovative concepts of phenotyping elaborated in this study play a crucial role in patient stratification for predicting pain-associated outcomes, evidence-based targeted prevention of the pain chronification, and creation of treatment algorithms tailored to individualized patient profiles.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13167-024-00383-3.

Keywords: Algesiology; Chronic pain; Diabetes; Flammer syndrome; Health policy; Health-to-disease transition; Low-grade inflammation; Mitochondria; Pain chronification prediction; Pain perception and sensitivity; Patient stratification; Personalized protection; Phenotyping; Predictive preventive personalized medicine (PPPM/3PM); Primary and secondary care; Questionnaire; Risk assessment; Scoring; Shifted regulation; Survey; Systemic risks.

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Conflict of interestThe authors declare no competing interests.

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Scree plot of eigenvalue for four-factor solution. It shows that the optimal number of components to retain for further analysis is 4 in this particular case
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