From: Neuropathic and nociceptive pain in head and neck cancer patients receiving radiation therapy
Neuropathic Descriptor | Frequency (%) | Nociceptive Descriptor | Frequency (%) | Affective and Evaluative Descriptors | Frequency (%) |
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Aching | 25 (20.2%) | Beating | 4 (3.2%) | Fearful | 5 (4.0%) |
Boring | 7 (5.6%) | Cramping | 0 (0%) | Frightening | 3 (2.4%) |
Burning | 33 (26.6%) | Crushing | 3 (2.4%) | Terrifying | 0 (0%) |
Cold | 0 (0%) | Cutting | 4 (3.2%) | Grueling | 4 (3.2%) |
Cool | 1 (0.8%) | Dull | 27 (21.8%) | Punishing | 3 (2.4%) |
Drawing | 1 (0.8%) | Gnawing | 6 (4.8%) | Cruel | 0 (0%) |
Drilling | 3 (2.4%) | Heavy | 2 (1.6%) | Vicious | 2 (1.6%) |
Flashing | 5 (4.0%) | Hurting | 16 (12.9%) | Killing | 1 (0.8%) |
Flickering | 10 (8.1%) | Lacerating | 5 (4.0%) | Tiring | 31 (25%) |
Freezing | 1 (0.8%) | Piercing | 11 (8.9%) | Exhausting | 10 (8.9%) |
Hot | 9 (7.3%) | Pinching | 2 (1.6%) | Wretched | 2 (1.6%) |
Itchy | 0 (0%) | Pounding | 2 (1.6%) | Blinding | 1 (0.8%) |
Jumping | 4 (3.2%) | Pressing | 13 (10.5%) | Sickening | 0 (0%) |
Lancinating | 1 (0.8%) | Pulling | 0 (0%) | Suffocating | 2 (1.6%) |
Numb | 14 (3.2%) | Pulsing | 9 (7.3%) | Annoying | 51 (41.1%) |
Penetrating | 1 (0.8%) | Rasping | 10 (8.1%) | Â | Â |
Pricking | 2 (1.6%) | Sharp | 19 (15.3%) | Â | Â |
Quivering | 4 (3.2%) | Sore | 40 (32.3%) | Â | Â |
Radiating | 1 (0.8%) | Splitting | 4 (3.2%) | Â | Â |
Scalding | 2 (1.6%) | Squeezing | 3 (2.4%) | Â | Â |
Searing | 4 (3.2%) | Taut | 8 (6.5%) | Â | Â |
Shooting | 9 (7.3%) | Tearing | 6 (4.8%) | Â | Â |
Smarting | 7 (5.6%) | Tender | 43 (34.7%) | Â | Â |
Spreading | 2 (1.6%) | Throbbing | 29 (23.4%) | Â | Â |
Stabbing | 11 (8.9%) | Tugging | 3 (2.4%) | Â | Â |
Stinging | 0 (0%) | Wrenching | 0 (0%) | Â | Â |
Tight | 0 (0%) | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Tingling | 12 (9.7%) | Â | Â | Â | Â |
 | Min = 0 |  | Min = 0 |  | Min = 0 |
 | Max = 11 |  | Max = 15 |  | Max = 13 |
 | Mean = 2.5 |  | Mean = 2.9 |  | Mean = 2.2 |
 | SD = 2.3 |  | SD = 2.5 |  | SD = 2.4 |