Answer to the Letter to the Editor of G. Supp concerning manuscript 'Centralization in patients with sciatica: Are pain responses to repeated movement and positioning associated with outcome or types of disc lesions?'by Hanne B. Albert et al. Eur Spine J, 2011 Sept 23 [epub ahead of print]

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I would like to congratulate the authors of the study published in European Spine Journal entitled "Centralization in patients with sciatica: are pain responses to repeated movement and positioning associated with outcome or types of disc lesions?" by Hanne B. Albert, Eva Hauge and Claus Manniche [1].The first report of the centralisation phenomenon was described in 1981 and followed 20 years of experimentation. I reported that when induced clinically as a result of various repetitive end range movements, centralising pain was predictive of good prognosis. I presented these findings in a monogram published in 1981.