Pain Threshold

"Pain Threshold" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Amount of stimulation required before the sensation of pain is experienced.

Descriptor ID	D017288
MeSH Number(s)	F02.463.593.710.560 F02.830.816.444.700 G11.561.790.444.700
Concept/Terms	Pain Threshold Pain Threshold Pain Thresholds Threshold, Pain Thresholds, Pain

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Pain Threshold".

Psychiatry and Psychology [F]
Psychological Phenomena [F02]
Mental Processes [F02.463]
Perception [F02.463.593]
Sensory Thresholds [F02.463.593.710]
Pain Threshold [F02.463.593.710.560]
Psychophysiology [F02.830]
Sensation [F02.830.816]
Pain [F02.830.816.444]
Pain Threshold [F02.830.816.444.700]
Biological Sciences [G]
Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena [G11]
Nervous System Physiological Phenomena [G11.561]
Sensation [G11.561.790]
Pain [G11.561.790.444]
Pain Threshold [G11.561.790.444.700]

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Bar chart showing 21 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2016

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2002	1	1	2
2005	0	1	1
2007	0	1	1
2008	1	0	1
2009	1	0	1
2010	0	3	3
2011	0	2	2
2012	1	1	2
2014	1	1	2
2016	2	3	5
2020	0	1	1

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Sokil LE, Rogero RG, McDonald EL, Corr D, Fuchs D, Winters BS, Pedowitz DI, Daniel JN, Raikin SM, Shakked RJ. Self-Reported Pain Tolerance and Opioid Pain Medication Use After Foot and Ankle Surgery. Foot Ankle Spec. 2022 Oct; 15(5):438-447.

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Mathur VA, Kiley KB, Haywood C, Bediako SM, Lanzkron S, Carroll CP, Buenaver LF, Pejsa M, Edwards RR, Haythornthwaite JA, Campbell CM. Multiple Levels of Suffering: Discrimination in Health-Care Settings is Associated With Enhanced Laboratory Pain Sensitivity in Sickle Cell Disease. Clin J Pain. 2016 12; 32(12):1076-1085.

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Mathur VA, Kiley KB, Carroll CP, Edwards RR, Lanzkron S, Haythornthwaite JA, Campbell CM. Disease-Related, Nondisease-Related, and Situational Catastrophizing in Sickle Cell Disease and Its Relationship With Pain. J Pain. 2016 11; 17(11):1227-1236.

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Campbell CM, Carroll CP, Kiley K, Han D, Haywood C, Lanzkron S, Swedberg L, Edwards RR, Page GG, Haythornthwaite JA. Quantitative sensory testing and pain-evoked cytokine reactivity: comparison of patients with sickle cell disease to healthy matched controls. Pain. 2016 Apr; 157(4):949-956.

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Neogi T, Guermazi A, Roemer F, Nevitt MC, Scholz J, Arendt-Nielsen L, Woolf C, Niu J, Bradley LA, Quinn E, Law LF. Association of Joint Inflammation With Pain Sensitization in Knee Osteoarthritis: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2016 Mar; 68(3):654-61.

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Campbell CM, Moscou-Jackson G, Carroll CP, Kiley K, Haywood C, Lanzkron S, Hand M, Edwards RR, Haythornthwaite JA. An Evaluation of Central Sensitization in Patients With Sickle Cell Disease. J Pain. 2016 05; 17(5):617-27.

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Malafoglia V, Colasanti M, Raffaeli W, Balciunas D, Giordano A, Bellipanni G. Extreme thermal noxious stimuli induce pain responses in zebrafish larvae. J Cell Physiol. 2014 Mar; 229(3):300-8.

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Henry NL, Conlon A, Kidwell KM, Griffith K, Smerage JB, Schott AF, Hayes DF, Williams DA, Clauw DJ, Harte SE. Effect of estrogen depletion on pain sensitivity in aromatase inhibitor-treated women with early-stage breast cancer. J Pain. 2014 May; 15(5):468-75.

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Sil S, Dahlquist LM, Thompson C, Hahn A, Herbert L, Wohlheiter K, Horn S. The effects of coping style on virtual reality enhanced videogame distraction in children undergoing cold pressor pain. J Behav Med. 2014 Feb; 37(1):156-65.

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Wohlheiter KA, Dahlquist LM. Interactive versus passive distraction for acute pain management in young children: the role of selective attention and development. J Pediatr Psychol. 2013 Mar; 38(2):202-12.

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