Sensitivities to Thermal and Mechanical Stimuli: Adults with Sickle Cell Disease Compared to Healthy, Pain-free African American Controls

Until recent findings that sickle cell disease (SCD) pain has characteristics consistent with central or peripheral sensitization,12,27,28,43 it was typically viewed as acute or persistent pain and treated mostly with opioids. Often the etiology of SCD pain is thought to be only episodic, driven by vaso-occlusion and somatic or visceral tissue damage,1,2,4 however, it has become increasingly clear that adults with SCD also experience chronic pain. A growing body of evidence now supports,12,27,28,40,43, but is not conclusive, that sensitization contributes to chronic pain in some adults with SCD.

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