Abstract: A pressure algometer comprises a tip for applying pressure to a point of the patient's body, a pressure transducer for sensing the intensity of the pressure applied to the patient's body and for producing a pressure intensity representative signal, and first and second elongate, laterally adjacent display units. A ramp signal is generated to drive the first elongate display unit and displace a first visual signal in a given direction along that first display unit at a predetermined speed. In response to the pressure intensity representative signal increasing in amplitude, a second visual signal is displaced in the given direction along the second display unit.

Abstract: In the algometry management method and system, a computer apparatus is used to select points of a patient's body on which pain sensitivity pressure measurements have to be made, to determine a sequence of these selected points, and to indicate the selected points one by one to an operator according to the sequence. A pressure algometer is used by the operator to apply pressure to each point of the sequence indicated and to measure the pressure being applied when a patient's threshold of pain is reached, this pressure measurement constituting a pain sensitivity pressure measurement. The computer apparatus also receives the pain sensitivity pressure measurement from the algometer for each point of the sequence, and stores the received pain sensitivity pressure measurements in a file associated to the patient. The method and system also ask to the patient a subjective indication of the intensity of pain and degree of discomfort he felt upon application of pressure to each point of the patient's body.