Objective. Response to lumbar epidural steroid injection in lumbar radicular pain varies. The
purpose of this study is to characterize the changes in quantitative sensory testing (QST) …

Preclinical studies have suggested that opioid exposure may induce a paradoxical decrease
in the nociceptive threshold, commonly referred as opioid-induced hyperalgesia (OIH) …

Background: The painDETECT questionnaire (PD-Q) is a fast and uncomplicated way to
ascertain the percentage of neuropathic pain in 'total pain'and is designed to detect …

Background Drugs are prescribed for chronic low back pain without knowing in advance
whether a patient will respond to them or not. Quantitative sensory tests (QST) can …

IMPLICATIONS: Quantitative sensory testing has the potential to become an important tool in
the selection of appropriate treatment for lumbar radiculopathy and to assist in identifying the …

Objective The aim of this study was to compare the sensitivity to experimental pain of chronic
pain patients on opioid therapy vs chronic pain patients on non-opioid therapy and healthy …

Background: Long-term opioid treatment has been used extensively in treatment of chronic
low back pain (cLBP) in the last decades. However, there are serious limitations to the long …

Objectives: Tonic spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is currently used to treat neuropathic pain.
With this type of stimulation, an implantable pulse generator generates electrical …

Background. Quantitative sensory testing (QST) has been used to predict the outcome of
epidural steroid injections in lumbosacral radicular pain and has the potential to be an …

Introduction Quantitative sensory testing (QST) is widely used in human research to
investigate the integrity of the sensory function in patients with pain of neuropathic origin, or …