• Pain management · Jan 2015

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    Quantitative sensory testing in pain management.

    • Carlos J Roldan and Salahadin Abdi.
    • Department of Pain Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
    • Pain Manag. 2015 Jan 1; 5 (6): 483-91.

    AbstractQuantitative sensory testing (QST), a set of noninvasive methods used to assess sensory and pain perception, has been used for three decades. The precision of the instruments and the uninvasiveness encouraged many QST-based trials. The developments made have benefited multiple disciplines. QST relies on analysis of an individual's response to external stimuli, reflecting the integrity of the PNS and the sensory pathway. The sensory pathway cannot be assessed in isolation from the affective and cognitive characteristics of patients or testers. Many variables potentially affect the reliability and reproducibility of QST, which after all, is designed for the testing of individuals by other individuals. Several decades of QST research have yielded exciting contributions, but the future of QST cannot be fully known.

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