Pain Hurts

Professionals who are involved in life care planning and case management will likely have some clients with chronic, and sometimes debilitating, pain. This special issue of the Journal of Life Care Planning includes a variety of articles selected to provide a broad range of information to the reader. One article relates to general chronic pain assessment, another focuses on pediatric pain, a third addresses spinal cord injury related pain, and the fourth reviews amputation related pain syndromes. This editor’s column will offer some definitions and terms as well as basic pain related issues.