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More than half of the patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) suffer chronic neuropathic pain syndromes (Burke, Fullen, Stokes, & Lennon, 2017; Siddall & Middleton, 2015). The mechanisms of neuropathic pain, particularly for below-level pain, remain poorly understood, but may involve the reorganization of the somatosensory systems and changes in body representations related to the massive deafferentation associated with SCI (Jutzeler, Curt, & Kramer, 2015; Osinski, Acapo, Bensmail, Bouhassira, & Martinez, 2019). In recent years, several studies have highlighted the interactions between pain and body representations (i.e. body image and/or body schema) (Haggard,