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Ambulatory pain evaluation based on heart rate variability analysis: Application to physical therapy.

Pain assessment is critical for efficient pain management. Clinicians usually use self-report or behavioral pain scales. In practice, the choice of the most adaptive scale depends on several parameters like the clinical context, the patient consciousness or its age, but all evaluation scales are known to be more or less subjective and to present high inter and intra individual variability. Recently, several innovative medical devices have been developed in order to provide to the clinicians a physiological measure of pain. These technologies are mainly used for the continuous monitoring of patients in intensive care or during surgery. As an example, we have developed a heart rate variability analysis based technology for analgesia/nociception monitoring in patients undergoing surgery under general anesthesia. Even if this technology is now used in other clinical settings, the resulting device presents some mobility constraints. In this paper, we describe the adaptation of this technology to the ambulatory pain evaluation and its clinical validation in the particular context of physical therapy. In the frame of this validation, we showed the device usability and efficiency for pain evaluation during physical therapy sessions.

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