Pain
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The submaximum effort tourniquet technique (SETT) is becoming more widely used as part of the clinical assessment of chronic pain patients despite little information about the scaling of this technique. Ratio scaling procedures resulted in a linear function, presumed to underlie clinical application of the SETT, for only 11% of the subjects. ⋯ Differences in these growth curves are discussed with reference to the concept of pain endurance. Continued needs for standardized pain evaluation techniques suggest that this type of psychophysical scaling procedure may improve the precision of some clinical pain assessments.