Confinements et patient douloureux chronique

The spread of the COVID-19 epidemic throughout the world has driven governments to adopt extraordinary measures and to impose a quarantine on the population. The daily restrictions imposed by this confinement, experienced abruptly by millions, could in some ways be likened to those already experienced by patients with chronic pain: a disrupted lifestyle with increased restrictions and fewer activities, and insecurity and uncertainty about the future… However, we have been able to observe that the COVID-19 confinement has complicated the organisation of chronic pain patients’ daily lives. Already confined due to their pain, quarantine conditions shut these patients up even more, in restrictive conditions that are out of keeping with their pre-epidemic lifestyle, resulting in increasing pain intensity for some, and reactivating frequently associated mental health vulnerability.