METHOD OF QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION OF PAIN Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC A61B5/53 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to medicine, namely to reflexo-diagnostics in states accompanied by pain syndrome. Treatment of said states with application of computer electro-acupuncture of auricular biologically active points is carried out. In the course of treatment patients sets and measures amplitude of stimulating pulses themselves in accordance with the instruction: "perception must be definitely sensitive but not painful". Initial and final values of stimulating pulse amplitude are registered. AS objective index, index of pain intensity (IPI) is calculated by formula: where Aav is average value of stimulating pulse amplitudes, Ai is average value of initial and final amplitudes of stimulating pulses, selected by patient in i-point, n is the number of biologically active points. If IPI is higher than 5.5 V pain is estimated as expressed. If IPI value is from 3.5 to 5.5 V - as of medium intensity or slight. If IPI is lower than 3.5 V it is concluded that pain is absent.

EFFECT: method allows to estimate pain syndrome intensity objectively due to application of new evaluation index.

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