Pain patterns and descriptions in patients with radicular pain Does the pain necessarily follow a specific dermatome 英文参考文献.docVIP

Chiropractic Osteopathy BioMedCentral Research Open Access Pain patterns and descriptions in patients with radicular pain: Does the pain necessarily follow a specific dermatome? Donald R Murphy*1,2,3, Eric L Hurwitz4, Jonathan K Gerrard5 and Ronald Clary6 Address: 1Rhode Island Spine Center, 600 Pawtucket Ave, Pawtucket, RI 02860-6059, USA, 2Department of Community Health, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Box G-A, Providence, RI 02912, USA, 3Department of Research, New York Chiropractic College, 2360 State Route 89, Seneca Falls, New York 13148, USA, 4Department of Public Health Sciences, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Hawaii 96822, USA, 5Aquarius Chiropractic, #210 - 179 Davie Street, Vancouver, V6Z 2Y1, Canada and 6Private Practice of Chiropractic Medicine, 621 Smith Street, Providence, RI 02908, USA Email: Donald R Murphy* - rispine@; Eric L Hurwitz - ehurwitz@; Jonathan K Gerrard - kineticjon@; Ronald Clary - reclary@ * Corresponding author Published: 21 September 2009 Received: 2 May 2009 Accepted: 21 September 2009 Chiropractic Osteopathy 2009, 17:9 doi:10.1186/1746-1340-17-9 This article is available from: /content/17/1/9 ? 2009 Murphy et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: It is commonly stated that nerve root pain should be expected to follow a specific dermatome and that this information is useful to make the diagnosis of radiculopathy. There is little evidence in the literature that confirms or denies this statement. The purpose of this study is to describe and discuss the diagnostic utility of the distribution of pain in patients with cervical and lumbar radicular pain. Methods: Pain drawings and descriptions were as