Value of quantitative sensory testing in neurological and pain disorders: NeuPSIG consensus

N Attal, R Baron, D Bouhassira, M Drangholt, PJ Dyck… - PAIN®, 2013 - Elsevier
Quantitative sensory testing (QST) is a psychophysical method used to quantify
somatosensory function in response to controlled stimuli in healthy subjects and patients …

Usefulness and limitations of quantitative sensory testing: clinical and research application in neuropathic pain states

P Hansson, M Backonja, D Bouhassira - Pain, 2007 - journals.lww.com
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 …

Clinical applications of quantitative sensory testing (QST)

R Zaslansky, D Yarnitsky - Journal of the neurological sciences, 1998 - Elsevier
Quantitative sensory testing (QST) has been used clinically for the last two decades, yielding
a substantial number of publications regarding these applications. In this review we tried to …

Quantitative sensory testing of neuropathic pain patients: potential mechanistic and therapeutic implications

DB Pfau, C Geber, F Birklein, RD Treede - Current pain and headache …, 2012 - Springer
Quantitative sensory testing (QST) is a widely accepted tool to investigate somatosensory
changes in pain patients. Many different protocols have been developed in clinical pain …

Quantitative sensory testing in measurement of neuropathic pain phenomena and other sensory abnormalities

MM Backonja, D Walk, RR Edwards… - The Clinical journal …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Neuropathic pain disorders are usually characterized by spontaneous ongoing or
intermittent symptoms, stimulus-evoked positive sensory phenomena, and negative sensory …

How stable are quantitative sensory testing measurements over time? Report on 10-week reliability and agreement of results in healthy volunteers

H Nothnagel, C Puta, T Lehmann… - Journal of pain …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Background Quantitative sensory testing (QST) is a diagnostic tool for the assessment of the
somatosensory system. To establish QST as an outcome measure for clinical trials, the …

Concurrent validity of a low‐cost and time‐efficient clinical sensory test battery to evaluate somatosensory dysfunction

GC Zhu, K Böttger, H Slater, C Cook… - … Journal of Pain, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background This study describes a low‐cost and time‐efficient clinical sensory test (CST)
battery and evaluates its concurrent validity as a screening tool to detect somatosensory …

[PDF][PDF] Reliability and validity of quantitative sensory testing in persons with spinal cord injury and neuropathic pain.

ER Felix, EG Widerström-Noga - Journal of Rehabilitation …, 2009 - researchgate.net
Quantitative sensory testing (QST) has been used to assess neurological function in various
chronic pain patient populations. In the present study, we investigated the ability of QST to …

Quantitative sensory testing in chronic musculoskeletal pain

Z Uddin, JC MacDermid - Pain Medicine, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background. In recent years, several published articles have demonstrated that quantitative
sensory testing (QST) is useful in the analysis of musculoskeletal pain disorders. Based on …

Test–retest and interobserver reliability of quantitative sensory testing according to the protocol of the German Research Network on Neuropathic Pain (DFNS): a multi …

C Geber, T Klein, S Azad, F Birklein, J Gierthmühlen… - PAIN®, 2011 - Elsevier
Quantitative sensory testing (QST) is an instrument to assess positive and negative sensory
signs, helping to identify mechanisms underlying pathologic pain conditions. In this study …