{"title":"Ocular Neuropathic Pain: A Clinician's Approach.","authors":"Deborah S Jacobs","doi":"10.1097/ICL.0000000000001295","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Ocular neuropathic pain (ONP) can be defined as \"pain\" or \"discomfort\" projected to eye because of a lesion or disease or physiological dysfunction of the nervous system. The diagnosis of ONP is a clinical one; history, eye examination, the anesthetic challenge, and in vivo confocal microscopy providing supportive roles in helping to distinguish nociceptive, nociplastic, and neuropathic pain. Multimodal treatment involving local agents and interventions, along with systemic agents, is often required.</p>","PeriodicalId":50457,"journal":{"name":"Eye & Contact Lens-Science and Clinical Practice","volume":" ","pages":"338-342"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Eye & Contact Lens-Science and Clinical Practice","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1097/ICL.0000000000001295","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2026/6/24 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"OPHTHALMOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract: Ocular neuropathic pain (ONP) can be defined as "pain" or "discomfort" projected to eye because of a lesion or disease or physiological dysfunction of the nervous system. The diagnosis of ONP is a clinical one; history, eye examination, the anesthetic challenge, and in vivo confocal microscopy providing supportive roles in helping to distinguish nociceptive, nociplastic, and neuropathic pain. Multimodal treatment involving local agents and interventions, along with systemic agents, is often required.
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Eye & Contact Lens: Science and Clinical Practice is the official journal of the Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists (CLAO), an international educational association for anterior segment research and clinical practice of interest to ophthalmologists, optometrists, and other vision care providers and researchers. Focusing especially on contact lenses, it also covers dry eye disease, MGD, infections, toxicity of drops and contact lens care solutions, topography, cornea surgery and post-operative care, optics, refractive surgery and corneal stability (eg, UV cross-linking). Peer-reviewed and published six times annually, it is a highly respected scientific journal in its field.