Pedictors of patients' expreience of pain in EMG

The important features that predict the amount of pain experienced by patients with low back pain who undergo needle electromyography were the patients' assessment of their own pain, their trait‐anxiety levels, and female sex. Although it does not influence EMG pain, information about the test will decrease the anxiety of patients coming for testing.

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