Importance of sleep in neuropathic pain

This brief review is intended to provide an overview of the importance of disturbed or non-restorative sleep in patients with neuropathic pain. Disturbed sleep is common in neuropathic pain and along with co-morbid anxiety and depression can have profound effects on daytime functioning and quality of life of the patient. It is thus important that the treatment of neuropathic pain should also seek to diagnose and appropriately treat these co-morbidities in order to optimally improve the patient??s functioning.