Background: Pain phenotyping classifies a patient’s pain as nociceptive, peripheral neuropathic, or nociplastic and should drive examination and treatment options.
Objective: To explore if pain phenotype clinical presentations shift during the course of physical therapy treatment.
Results: Ninety-two patients were assessed and treated. The data suggest that participants’ phenotypes changed from more complex (nociplastic) to less complex (nociceptive) over the duration of treatment.
Conclusion: Pain phenotypes may shift during physical therapy.