[Objective evaluation of the effect of suggestion analgesia on the pain threshold]

Objectivization of the pain threshold, mean pain and tolerance of painful stimuli in patients with vertebrogenic algic syndrome is so far not a common examination method within the framework of psychological examinations of hospitalized patients. Because of the availability of the examination technique, the ischaemic pain test was selected performed by means of an ordinary tonometer and a rubber dynamometer. In the paper the author publishes for the first time preliminary norms for our population evaluated by the re-test following suggestive analgesia during autogenic training, extended by reflections on possible objectivization of subjective experience--pain, and further trends of clinical research in this area are outlined.