Somatosensory Testing in Pediatric Patients with Chronic Pain: An Exploration of Clinical Utility

• Main Authors: Anna Kersch (Author), Panchalee Perera (Author), Melanie Mercado (Author), Andrew Gorrie (Author), David Sainsbury (Author), Tara McGrath (Author), Phillip Aouad (Author), Sara Sarraf (Author), Tiina Jaaniste (Author), David Champion (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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We aimed to evaluate the utility of clinical somatosensory testing (SST), an office adaptation of laboratory quantitative sensory testing, in a biopsychosocial assessment of a pediatric chronic somatic pain sample (N = 98, 65 females, 7-18 years). Stimulus-response tests were applied at pain regions...