Using a semi-quantitative method the repeatability of brush-evoked allodynia was examined within and between days in nine patients with spontaneous ongoing pain and dynamic mechanical allodynia due to peripheral neuropathy. In addition, the relationship between the intensity of spontaneous ongoing pain and the total brush-evoked pain intensity was addressed. The brush stimulus was applied in the innervation territory of the lesioned nervous structure by lightly stroking 60 mm of the skin four times with an 8 mm wide brush. Using a computerized visual analogue scale the patients continuously rated the intensity and duration of brush-evoked allodynia and the total brush-evoked pain intensity was calculated as the area under the curve. The patients were examined 4 days during one month, i.e. at day 1, 3, 28 and 30 and each study day the stimulus was repeated four times with an inter-stimulus interval of 10 min. The variation between repeated assessments was analyzed using the intraclass correlation coefficient and the total brush-evoked pain intensity within days ranged from 0.89 to 0.95 ("very good repeatability") and between days from 0.77 to 0.97 ("very good repeatability"). A significant positive correlation was demonstrated between the mean intensity of spontaneous ongoing pain and the mean total brush-evoked pain intensity (r(s)=0.68, P<0.042, "a moderate to good correlation").
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