Measuring pain

Measuring up to shoulder pain.

Measuring pain and analgesic response.

Pain is a complex phenomenon, defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. This definition is widely accepted and has led to many advances in pain medicine, but it has shortcomings and has been challenged. The definition of pain underlies the complexity of its measurement. Pain is individual and subjective, modulated by physiologic...

Measuring troublesomeness of chronic pain by location

BACKGROUND Current measures of pain assess the relative contribution of pain in different body regions to the overall impact of pain. We developed a series of questions to measure the relative 'troublesomeness' of pain in different body regions (the "troublesomeness grid"). The study aimed to determine whether the "troublesomeness grid" is an appropriate measure to assess the severity of pain i...

The Neuromodulation of Neuropathic Pain by Measuring Pain Response Rate and Pain Response Duration in Animal

OBJECTIVE Neuropathic pain causes patients feel indescribable pain. Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is one of the treatment methods in neuropathic pain but the action mechanism is still unclear. To study the effect and mechanism of analgesic effects from DBS in neuropathic pain and to enhance the analgesic effect of DBS, we stimulated the ventral posterolateral nucleus (VPL) in rats. METHODS To ...

Studies on Pain. a New Method for Measuring Pain Threshold: Observations on Spatial Summation of Pain.

The purpose of these studies has been to present a new method for measuring pain thresholds, together with experimental observations on the physiology of pain and on the effect of various chemical agents upon pain thresholds. Methods for estimating the intensity of the stimulus required to evoke a painful sensation in the skin may be classified under the headings: mechanical, chemical, electric...