An interventional study of Quantitative Sensory Testing in Sensitive Skin, sponsored by University Hospital, Brest. Completed at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 20 Years to 60 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-02-04.
Sponsored by University Hospital, Brest · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other
Sensitive skin is a common problem, with 50% of women and 30% of men in Europe feel they have sensitive skin.
The Quantitative sensory testing (QST) is a physico-psychic method that uses gradients stimuli of different modalities to measure a subjective somatosensory response. This allows to characterize sensory dysfunction by assessing the participation of small and large nerve fibers.
The aim of this project is to characterize the presence or absence of a neurological disorder in patients with sensitive skin. This discovery would be a decisive argument to reinforce the suspicion that sensitive skins is linked to a small fiber neuropathy.
Sensitive skin is a common problem, with 50% of women and 30% of men in Europe feel they have sensitive skin. A sensitive skin is characterized by the occurrence of tingling sensations, tightness, heat, burning, itching or pain triggered by non pathogenic factors such as wind, heat, cold, water , cosmetics, toiletries, stress...
The Quantitative sensory testing (QST) is a physico-psychic method that uses gradients stimuli of different modalities to measure a subjective somatosensory response. This allows to characterize sensory dysfunction by assessing the participation of small and large nerve fibers.
The aim of this project is to characterize the presence or absence of a neurological disorder in patients with sensitive skin. This discovery would be a decisive argument to reinforce the suspicion that sensitive skins is linked to a small fiber neuropathy.
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subjects with a score greater than 50 on the scale sensitive scale
Exclusion Criteria:
Subjects with a score greater than 50 on the sensitive scale
Device: Quantitative Sensory Testing
Subjects with result lower than 20 on the sensitive scale
Device: Quantitative Sensory Testing
Study of detection thresholds of vibration, cold and pain related to the heat in the dominant hand of the subjects through the QST.
Cutaneous perception threshold
The cutaneous perception threshold of pain to heat.
Time frame: 6 months
The cutaneous perception threshold of vibration
The cutaneous perception threshold of pain to harm.
Time frame: 6 months
The cutaneous perception threshold of cold
The cutaneous perception threshold of cold
Time frame: 6 months
Plan to share: No
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