Editorial: “Novel Pain Therapeutics: From Basic Research to Clinical Translation and Rehabilitation”

摘要

Chronic pain is a major public health problem representing a global leading cause of disability and disease burden with low back pain and headache disorders ranking top-ten as causes of disabilityadjusted life-years (DALYs) throughout the whole lifetime from teenage to old age (Diseases and Injuries, 2020). In fact, some 30–50% of the world population and almost 20% of the Europeans actually suffer from chronic pain with devastating cost for the society in terms of disability and hospitalization (Breivik et al., 2006; Reid et al., 2011; van Hecke et al., 2013; Mills et al., 2019).