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Therefore, our objective was to establish overall and sex-specific sensory profile cut-off points that distinguish symptoms of central sensitization at 12 weeks, using a retrospective prognostic cohort study design. Methods: Two hundred and seventeen patients with acute LBP (&lt;6 weeks) were assessed using Receiver Operator Characteristic analyses. Measurements were taken at baseline using the Adolescent\/Adult Sensory Profile and follow-up by the Central Sensitization Inventory at 12 weeks, based on the established Central Sensitization Inventory cut-off points for the overall population at \u226530 and \u226540, female patients at \u226533, and male patients at \u226525. Results: In female patients, a Sensory Sensitive cut-off point of \u226530.5 significantly distinguished central sensitization symptoms at 12 weeks, resulting in the following values: Area Under the Curve = 0.81 (95% CI = 0.73; 0.89), sensitivity = 0.89, specificity = 0.63, prevalence = 0.36, positive predictive value = 0.56, negative predictive value = 0.80, and Youden\u2019s index = 0.52. Conclusions: The Sensory Sensitive profile distinguishes female patients with acute LBP with and without central sensitization symptoms at 12 weeks. This cut-off point may be useful in identifying individual sensory preferences and addressing maladaptive behavioral responses to sensory stimulation in clinical practice to prevent chronicity.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm14020621","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,20]],"date-time":"2025-01-20T12:32:52Z","timestamp":1737376372000},"page":"621","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Sex-Specific Sensory Profiles Discriminate Between Sensitization at Twelve Weeks in Patients with Acute Low Back Pain: A Retrospective Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6993-3832","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pieter J.","family":"Gr\u00e4per","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Experimental Anatomy Research Group, Department of Physiotherapy, Human Physiology and Anatomy, Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 103, 1090 Brussels, Belgium"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9692-9513","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Aldo","family":"Scafoglieri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Experimental Anatomy Research Group, Department of Physiotherapy, Human Physiology and Anatomy, Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 103, 1090 Brussels, Belgium"},{"name":"Department of Master Education, SOMT University of Physiotherapy, Softwareweg 5, 3821 BN Amersfoort, The Netherlands"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Joannes M.","family":"Hallegraeff","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Experimental Anatomy Research Group, Department of Physiotherapy, Human Physiology and Anatomy, Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 103, 1090 Brussels, Belgium"},{"name":"Department of Master Education, SOMT University of Physiotherapy, Softwareweg 5, 3821 BN Amersfoort, The Netherlands"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"602","DOI":"10.1002\/ejp.2083","article-title":"Prognosis of a new episode of low-back pain in a community inception cohort","volume":"27","author":"Maher","year":"2023","journal-title":"Eur. 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