Clinical Ratings of Pain Sensitivity Correlate With Quantitative Measures in People With Chronic Neck Pain and Healthy Controls: Cross-Sectional Study
Author(s) -
Trudy Rebbeck,
Niamh Moloney,
Roxanne Azoory,
Markus Hübscher,
Robert Waller,
Rebekah Gibbons,
Darren Beales
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
physical therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.998
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1538-6724
pISSN - 0031-9023
DOI - 10.2522/ptj.20140352
Subject(s) - quantitative sensory testing , medicine , interquartile range , neck pain , physical therapy , cross sectional study , wrist , chronic pain , physical medicine and rehabilitation , surgery , sensory system , psychology , pathology , cognitive psychology , alternative medicine
Correlations between clinical and quantitative measures of pain sensitivity are poor, making it difficult for clinicians to detect people with pain sensitivity. Clinical detection of pain sensitivity is important because these people have a different prognosis and may require different treatment.
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