Abstract Description
Calibrated thermal stimuli delivered to the skin (in the painful vs control area) can help identify and quantify the dysfunction in specific types on peripheral nerve fibers, particularly C-fibers and A-δ fibers.
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the subtypes of nerve fibers that can be assessed with thermal QST approaches
2. Outline common protocols for assessing warmth and cold detection thresholds, as well as heat and cold pain thresholds in patients with neuropathic pain
3. Experience, hands-on, the measurements of thermal thresholds as a participants, and as a tester; compare and contrast the anticipated vs. real sense of participating in a sensory testing session as a subject.
