Table 1.

Nijmegen-Aalborg screening quantitative sensory testing paradigm[18]

NASQ paradigm
Standard QST
Sites (bilateral)	Trapezius muscle, thenar eminence, rectus femoris, abductor hallucis, site of pain
Thresholds	Pressure pain, electric detection, electric pain detection, electric pain tolerance
Conditioned pain modulation
Sites	1 Ice-water bucket (non-dominant hand)
	2 Thresholds on rectus femoris
Thresholds (before ice-water/180 s after)	Pressure pain, electric pain tolerance

Quantitative sensory testing (QST) measurements to detect central sensitization and pro- or anti-nociceptive shifts in descending pain modulation. NASQ: Nijmegen-Aalborg screening QST.