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Widespread hyposensitivity is less studied than hypersensitivity states, but recent work indicates that hypoesthesia may be present in chronic non-neuropathic pain conditions and could have negative prognostic value. Electrical pain and reflex thresholds are well established measures of central pain sensitivity in human pain research. One potential application of these assessments in clinical practice is the detection of central hyper- or hyposensitivity in individual patients. In order to identify these disturbances in the central pain processing of individual patients, knowledge of reference values is essential. We computed percentile normative values of nociceptive withdrawal reflex (NWR) and pain thresholds to different electrical stimulation paradigms. The aim was to provide reference values for the assessment of widespread central hyper- and hyposensitivity in individual patients.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_j.sjpain.2012.09.002_s_002\">\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>300 pain-free subjects (150 males and 150 females, 18-80 years) were studied. Pain and reflex thresholds to single and repeated electrical stimulation (applied on the innervations area of the sural nerve), and the area of reflex receptive fields (RRF) were recorded. The RRF area was defined as the skin area of the sole of the foot from which a NWR could be evoked in the tibialis anterior muscle, expressed as proportion of the foot sole. For the threshold assessments, quantile regressions were performed to compute critical normative values for widespread central hypersensitivity (5th, 10th and 25th percentiles) and hyposensitivity (75th, 90th and 95th percentiles). For the RRF the opposite applied, computing normative values for widespread central hypersensitivity as 75th, 90th and 95th percentiles, and normative values for hyposensitivity as 5th, 10th and 25th percentiles. The following covariates were included in the regression analyses: gender, age, height, weight, body mass index, body side of testing, depression (Beck Depression Inventory), anxiety (State-Trait-Anxiety-Inventory), catastrophizing (Catastrophizing Scale of the Coping Strategies Questionnaire) and Short-Form 36.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_j.sjpain.2012.09.002_s_003\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Age had a significant impact on the subjective pain threshold to single electrical stimuli. The reflex threshold to single electrical stimuli was lower on the dominant compared to the non-dominant side. Therefore, the percentiles for single stimulus pain threshold have been stratified by age and the percentiles for single stimulus reflex threshold by body side (dominant vs. non-dominant). Critical normative values of all tests were computed for widespread central hypersensitivity (5th, 10th and 25th percentiles) and hyposensitivity (75th, 90th and 95th percentiles). The values are provided in the table of the manuscript.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_j.sjpain.2012.09.002_s_004\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions and implications<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The computed estimates of critical normative values for the electrical pain test can be used in clinical practice for the assessment of widespread central hypersensitivity and hyposensitivity in individual patients, and in future research on mechanism-based treatment of chronic pain.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1016\/j.sjpain.2012.09.002","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,4,9]],"date-time":"2013-04-09T23:22:41Z","timestamp":1365549761000},"page":"120-124","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Percentile normative values of parameters of electrical pain and reflex thresholds"],"prefix":"10.1515","volume":"4","author":[{"given":"Pasquale","family":"Scaramozzino","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"DeFiMS, SOAS , University of London , London , UK"},{"name":"DEDI , University of Rome Tor Vergata , Rome , Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alban Y.","family":"Neziri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Therapy , University Hospital of Bern , 3010 Bern , Switzerland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ole K.","family":"Andersen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction , Department of Health Science and Technology , Aalborg University , Aalborg , Denmark"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lars","family":"Arendt-Nielsen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction , Department of Health Science and Technology , Aalborg University , Aalborg , Denmark"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Michele","family":"Curatolo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Therapy , University Hospital of Bern , 3010 Bern , Switzerland"},{"name":"Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction , Department of Health Science and Technology , Aalborg University , Aalborg , Denmark"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"374","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,4,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025120910014741811_j_j.sjpain.2012.09.002_ref_001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Woolf CJ. 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