Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

1 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Behavior

Back Mechanical Sensitivity Assessment in the Rat for Mechanistic Investigation of Chronic Back Pain

Hatef Khosravi^1,2, Nasim Eskandari^1,2, Benjamin Provencher^1,2, Thierry Paquette^1,2, Hugues Leblond^1,2, Emad Khalilzadeh^1,3, Mathieu Piché^1,2

¹Department of Anatomy, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, ²CogNAC Research Group, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, ³Division of Physiology, Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tabriz

To develop novel therapeutic interventions for the prevention and management of back pain, animal models are required to examine the mechanisms and effectiveness of these therapies from a translational perspective. The present protocol describes the BMS test, a standardized method to assess back mechanical sensitivity in the rat.