Psychophysical testing has the potential to identify patients at risk for severe postsurgical pain and for developing persistent postsurgical pain. Identification of that risk should allow for better preemptive actions. However, the clinimetric characteristics of these tests are barely defined. Consequently, their predictive value remains limited and needs to be refined in order to be exploitable at the bedside with standardized protocols and normative data for surgical patients.
Plaghki, L., & Mouraux, A. (2014). Prédiction de la douleur postopératoire sévère et de la persistance de la douleur postchirurgicale par des tests psychophysiques. Douleur et Analgésie, 27(3), 154-161. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11724-014-0392-x (Original work published 2014)