Pain threshold reflects psychological traits in patients with chronic pain: a cross-sectional study

Pain threshold reflects psychological traits in patients with chronic pain: a cross-sectional study

Abstract Background Chronic pain enhances sensory sensitivity and induces the biased development of psychological traits such as depression and pain catastrophizing, leading to the formation of heterogeneous conditions. Fluctuations in the sensory-related thresholds of non-injured sites (with normal...

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Main Authors: Fumie Kato, Tetsuya Abe, Kenji Kanbara, Ikumi Ban, Tadashi Kiba, Sadanobu Kawashima, Yukie Saka, Yasuyuki Mizuno, Mikihiko Fukunaga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-05-01
Series:BioPsychoSocial Medicine
Subjects:
Chronic pain
Pain tolerance threshold
Central sensitization
High sensitivity
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
Quantitative sensory testing
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13030-017-0098-4

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