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.
Khosravi, H., Eskandari, N., Provencher, B., Paquette, T., Leblond, H., Khalilzadeh, E., Piché, M. Back Mechanical Sensitivity Assessment in the Rat for Mechanistic Investigation of Chronic Back Pain. J. Vis. Exp. (186), e63667, doi:10.3791/63667 (2022).