NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF PAIN: EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS

Lars Arendt-Nielsen

Abstract

This paper deals with new technologies today used to assess pain in patients with chronic pain. The author describes the state of art concerning the current scenario of pain assessment issue. Attention is focused on Quantitative Sensory Testing (QST) technology used to stimulate pain in order to evaluate the patient sensation and score the perceived pain level. In detail, QST can provide an understanding of the mechanisms involved in pain transduction, transmission, and perception under normal and pathophysiological conditions and provide mechanism-based diagnosis, prevention, and management of pain. A discussion on clinical applications of the above mentioned assessment technique is reported.

Keywords

pain, quantitative sensory testing, pain stimulation, pain assessment

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TC13 - Measurements in Biology and Medicine

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