Concurrent validity of a low-cost and time-efficient clinical sensory test battery to evaluate somatosensory dysfunction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study describes a low-cost and time-efficient clinical sensory test (CST) battery and evaluates its concurrent validity as a screening tool to detect somatosensory dysfunction as determined using quantitative sensory testing (QST).

Method

Three patient cohorts with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS, n = 76), non-specific neck and arm pain (NSNAP, n = 40) and lumbar radicular pain/radiculopathy (LR, n = 26) were included. The CST consisted of 13 tests, each corresponding to a QST parameter and evaluating a broad spectrum of sensory functions using thermal (coins, ice cube, hot test tube) and mechanical (cotton wool, von Frey hairs, tuning fork, toothpicks, thumb and eraser pressure) detection and pain thresholds testing both loss and gain of function. Agreement rate

SUBMITTER: Zhu GC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6852113 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature