Clinical Ratings of Pain Sensitivity Correlate With Quantitative Measures in People With Chronic Neck Pain and Healthy Controls: Cross-Sectional Study

Trudy Rebbeck; Niamh Moloney; Roxanne Azoory; Markus Hübscher; Robert Waller; Rebekah Gibbons; Darren Beales

doi:10.2522/ptj.20140352

Tables

Table 1.

Participant Characteristics and Group Differences for Pain, Disability, Psychological, and Health Status Domains^{^a}

↵^a BMI=body mass index, NSW=New South Wales, WA=Western Australia, DASS-21=short-form Depression Anxiety Stress Scale, PCS=Pain Catastrophizing Scale.

Table 2.

Group Differences for Quantitative and Clinical Measures of Pressure and Cold Pain Sensitivity^{^a}

↵^a IQR=interquartile range, CPT=cold pain threshold, NRS=numeric rating scale, PPT=pressure pain threshold.
^b Wrist data given for the symptomatic side for the neck pain group and for the mean between left and right sides for the control group.

Table 3.

Bivariate Correlation Analyses Between Quantitative and Clinical Measures for Cold Pain Sensitivity^{^a}

↵^a CPT=cold pain threshold.
^b Wrist data analyzed for the symptomatic side in the neck pain group and for the mean difference between left and right sides for the control group.

Table 4.

Bivariate Correlation Analyses Between Quantitative and Clinical Measures for Pressure Pain Sensitivity^{^a}

↵^a PPT=pressure pain threshold.

Table 5.

Regression Analyses for Variables Associated With Cold Pain Threshold at All Body Sites^{^a}

↵^a Model 1: variables entered were sex, Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) score, short-form Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21) score, sleep quality, composite numeric rating score for pain (NRS composite), and Brachial Plexus Pain Provocation (BPPT) test score. Only results for variables that reached significance are shown. Model 2: variables entered were the same as for model 1 as well as clinical ice cold score and clinical ice pain score. All=whole cohort, NS=not significant.

Table 6.

Regression Analyses for Variables Associated With Pressure Pain Thresholds at All Body Sites^{^a}

↵^a Model 1: variables entered were sex, Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) score, short-form Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21) score, sleep quality, composite numeric rating score for pain (NRS composite), and Brachial Plexus Pain Provocation (BPPT) test score. Only results for variables that reached significance are shown. Model 2: variables entered were the same as for model 1 as well as clinical pressure pain score. All=whole cohort, NS=not significant.

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Clinical Ratings of Pain Sensitivity Correlate With Quantitative Measures in People With Chronic Neck Pain and Healthy Controls: Cross-Sectional Study