Pain intensity did not contribute to the final model. The interpretation of this result may be that pain intensity plays a more important part in the acute situation, whereas chronic pain is modi- fied by several factors, masking the relationship to hyperalgesia and other neuropathic symptoms. Reduced function, as evaluated by FIQ, was asso- ciated with a higher number of neuropathic symptoms in the present study, but outweighed by emotional distress and the diagnosis of fibromyal- gia. The present patients reported elevated levels of emotional distress, and the most prominent feature was somatization.