Personalized Management in Chronic Pain
A special issue of Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN 2075-4426). This special issue belongs to the section "Personalized Therapy in Clinical Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2026
Special Issue Editor
Interests: low back pain; neck pain; physiotherapy; musculoskeletal disorders; exercise, placebo effets, nocebo effects
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Special Issue Information
Chronic pain is a major public health challenge and a leading cause of disability worldwide, affecting millions of individuals and imposing substantial personal, societal, and economic burdens. Despite advances in pain research and treatment, many conventional approaches remain ineffective for large patient populations due to the highly heterogeneous nature of chronic pain conditions. This underscores the critical need for more individualized and targeted strategies in pain care.
This Special Issue, "Personalized Management in Chronic Pain", aims to advance the understanding and application of tailored interventions for individuals suffering from chronic pain conditions—including but not limited to low back pain, neuropathic pain, fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, cancer-related pain, headache disorders, musculoskeletal and post-surgical pain syndromes.
We invite original research, reviews, clinical trials, and observational studies (prospective and retrospective) that explore stratified care models, precision diagnostics, biomarkers, individualized pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments, personalized rehabilitation approaches, and innovative assessment methods or outcome measures tailored to individual patient profiles and studies addressing risk stratification, prevention of pain chronification, and prognosis.
Submissions may address pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions, including physiotherapy, exercise therapy, psychological, neuromodulation techniques, and digital or technology-assisted therapies, as well as integrated or multidisciplinary pain management strategies grounded in a biopsychosocial framework.
By highlighting emerging evidence, technological innovations, and patient-centered care models, this issue seeks to support clinicians and researchers in developing more effective, precise, and sustainable solutions to reduce the long-term burden of chronic pain and improve patient outcomes.
Dr. Rossettini Giacomo
Guest Editor
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Personalized Medicine is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- personalized medicine
- chronic pain
- pain management
- tailored rehabilitation
- biopsychosocial model
- digital health
- physiotherapy
- neuromodulation
- musculoskeletal disorders
- low back pain
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