This letter to editor emphasizes on the interrelationship between neuropathic pain and chronic pain from an evidence-informed epidemiological perspective in order to facilitate a collative critical understanding on the subject of pain sciences. The biopsychosocial model and its ensuing multidisciplinary/ inter-disciplinary approaches towards assessment and management of chronic pain and neuropathic pain underpin common underlying mechanisms yet separate to distinctively identify them rather than as a single entity of chronic neuropathic pain. The anecdotal assumption that NeP was a subsidy to ChP was evidently disproven by the existing studies indicating that NeP is an important subset of ChP and has most disabling consequences and impact on quality of life than its non-neuropathic counterpart.

Keywords: Biopsychosocial model; Pain psychology; Neuroanesthesiology; Pain sciences; Pain rehabilitation.