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Addition of Slowly Repeated Evoked Pain Responses to Clinical Symptoms Enhances Fibromyalgia Diagnostic Accuracy.
Abstract
Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain syndrome characterized by central sensitization. A novel protocol based on slowly repeated evoked pain (SREP) appears to be a useful marker of pain sensitization in fibromyalgia patients. Whether SREP enhances diagnostic accuracy beyond key clinical symptoms that characterize fibromyalgia has not been examined.