OBJECTIVE: To systematically review the use of Quantitative sensory testing (QST) in pain
characterisation (phenotyping) in Osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS: Six bibliographic …

Epidural steroid injections (ESIs) are the most widely utilized pain management procedure
in the world, their use supported by more than 45 placebo-controlled studies and dozens of …

Prior studies suggest manual therapy (MT) as effective in the treatment of musculoskeletal
pain; however, the mechanisms through which MT exerts its effects are not established. In …

Neuropathic pain is an umbrella diagnostic category of an etiologically diverse group of
painful neurological disorders with injury to or disease of the somatosensory system …

Study Design Randomized, controlled trial. Objectives To assess the believability of a novel
sham intervention for a neurodynamic technique (NDT) in participants with signs and …

To assess whether pseudoradicular low-back pain may be associated with subclinical
sensory deficits in the distal extremity, we applied the quantitative sensory testing protocol of …

Neuropathic pain encompasses a broad range of conditions associated with a lesion or
disease of the peripheral or central somatosensory system and its prevalence in the general …

Robust interindividual variation in pain sensitivity has been observed, and recent evidence
suggests that some of the variability may be genetically mediated. Our previous data …

The role of quantitative sensory testing (QST) in prediction of analgesic effect in humans is
scarcely investigated. This updated review assesses the effectiveness in predicting …

Objective. Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain condition with few effective treatments. Many
fibromyalgia patients seek acupuncture for analgesia; however, its efficacy is limited and not …