Differentiating varying degrees of central sensitization in chronic widespread pain using quantitative ultrasound

Introduction/Background Chronic widespread pain affects almost 11.4–24% of the general population. Central sensitization (CS) is thought to be the mechanism underlying chronic pain. The goal of this study was to determine whether ultrasound texture features (statistical measure of echointensity patterns) can differentiate chronic pain patients with varying degrees of CS, as our previous work has shown that texture features can differentiate …