Objectives: Individual differences in underlying, "basal" pain sensitivity are large and have clinical implications. Some studies have suggested that basal pain sensitivity may also predict the outcome of pain treatment. Multidisciplinary chronic pain management programs are effective, but treatment success is individually very different.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRecently, a self-rating measure for pain perception based on imagined painful daily life situations, the Pain Sensitivity Questionnaire (PSQ), has been developed and shown to correlate with experimentally obtained pain intensity ratings in healthy subjects. Here, we assessed the validity of the PSQ for investigation of general pain perception (ie, pain perception outside the site of clinical pain) in chronic pain patients. PSQ scores were obtained in 134 chronic pain patients and compared to those of 185 healthy control subjects.
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