Test–retest reliability of Quantitative Sensory Testing in knee osteoarthritis and healthy participants
| Autor: | Paul Dieppe, Ian D. Learmonth, SP Palmer, Vikki Wylde |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Pain Threshold medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Biomedical Engineering Osteoarthritis Somatosensory function Physical medicine and rehabilitation Rheumatology Physical Stimulation Internal medicine Perception medicine Humans Thermosensing Knee Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Quantitative Sensory Testing Reliability (statistics) Aged Pain Measurement media_common business.industry Quantitative sensory testing Reproducibility of Results Pain Perception Middle Aged Osteoarthritis Knee Reliability medicine.disease Test (assessment) Sensory Thresholds Physical therapy Female Thermal pain business |
| Zdroj: | Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 19(6):655-658 |
| ISSN: | 1063-4584 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.joca.2011.02.009 |
| Popis: | SummaryQuantitative Sensory Testing (QST), which assesses somatosensory function by recording participant’s responses to external stimuli of controlled intensity, is a useful tool to provide insight into the complex pathophysiology of osteoarthritis (OA) pain. However, QST is not commonly used in rheumatology because the test–retest reliability properties of QST in OA patients have not yet been established. This brief report presents the finding of a study which assessed the test–retest reliability of light touch thresholds, pressure pain thresholds, thermal sensation thresholds and thermal pain thresholds in 50 knee OA patients and 50 healthy participants. Pressure pain thresholds were found to be the least variable measurement, as median thresholds did not differ significantly over the 1 week period and the results were highly correlated. This provides support for the inclusion of pressure algometry in studies assessing pain perception abnormalities in OA. |
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