Treatment Guidelines: Neuropathic Pain

American Academy of Neurology (AAN)

• Oral and topical treatment of painful diabetic polyneuropathy practice guidelines (2021)

American Diabetes Association

• Diabetic neuropathy: a position statement by the American Diabetes Association (2016)

Canadian Pain Society

• Evidence-based guideline for neuropathic pain interventional treatments: spinal cord stimulation, intravenous infusions, epidural injections and nerve blocks (2012)

European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS)/Peripheral Nerve Society (PNS)

• Guideline on management of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (2010)
• Guideline on management of multifocal motor neuropathy (2010)
• Guideline on management of paraproteinemic demyelinating neuropathies (2010)

International Association for the Study of Pain Neuropathic Pain Special Interest Group (NeuPSIG)

• Interventional management of neuropathic pain: NeuPSIG recommendations (2015)

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

• Neuropathic pain in adults: pharmacological management in non-specialist settings (2020)

Toronto Expert Panel on Diabetic Neuropathy

• Painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy – Consensus recommendations on diagnosis, assessment and management (2011)

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

• Pain management best practices inter-agency task force report (2019)

Reviewer 1: Shelly Williams, PharmD, MPH, BCPS, BCPP
Reviewer 2: Austin Smith, PharmD, BCPP
2024-2025 AAPP Resident and New Practitioner Committee