Open AccessDoes Quantitative Sensory Testing Improve Prediction of Chronic Pain Trajectories? A Longitudinal Study of Youth With Functional Abdominal Pain Participating in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Cognitive Behavioral Treatment
Author(s) -
Matthew C. Morris,
Stephen Bruehl,
Amanda Stone,
Judy Garber,
Craig A. Smith,
Tonya M. Palermo,
Lynn S. Walker
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the clinical journal of pain/the clinical journal of pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.109
H-Index - 126
eISSN - 1536-5409
pISSN - 0749-8047
DOI - 10.1097/ajp.0000000000000956
Subject(s) - psychosocial , medicine , randomized controlled trial , quantitative sensory testing , physical therapy , abdominal pain , pain catastrophizing , distress , cognition , cognitive behavioral therapy , chronic pain , sensory system , psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , cognitive psychology
Youth with functional abdominal pain (FAP) experience significant pain-related distress and functional impairment. Although quantitative sensory testing protocols have identified alterations in pain modulatory systems that distinguish youth with FAP from healthy controls, the extent to which evoked pain responses predict subsequent trajectories of pain symptoms and disability over and above established psychosocial risk factors is unclear.