Part 1: The purpose of the first part of the study is to investigate the prevalence of pain at stroke onset and 3 and 6 months after stroke in a consecutive cohort of stroke patients admitted to a stroke unit.

Part 2: The purpose of the second part of the study is to identify patients who develop central post-stroke pain within the first 6 months following stroke and to try to identify early prognostic factors for the development of pain.

Part 1:

• Within 3 days of admission: medical history, pain history, sensory examination
• Telephone follow-up at 3 and 6 months post-stroke: pain history

Part 2:

• Medical history, Pain history, Sensory examination

Inclusion Criteria:

• Recent cerebrovascular stroke

Exclusion Criteria:

• Severe dementia, aphasia or psychosis
• Patients who cannot cooperate at time of inclusion
• Patients who do not understand Danish

Consecutive stroke patients admitted to the Stroke Unit of the Department of Neurology at Aarhus University Hospital between February 2008 to October 2009