Patent ID: 8706213

Claim:
A method of quantitative and/or qualitative determination of sympathetic tone and/or level of stress in a human, said method including: a) storage of a calibration threshold value and a stimulation threshold value, the calibration threshold value being a quantitative measure of a nociception threshold value of a stimulation at which pain is perceived by said human in a sympathetic tone-neutral point on a human body and the stimulation threshold value being a quantitative measure of a nociception threshold value of a stimulation at which pain is perceived by said human in a sympathetic tone-dependent point on the human body, and subsequently; b) calculation of an indication value of sympathetic tone and/or level of stress by comparing the stimulation threshold value with the calibration threshold value, wherein the indication value of sympathetic tone is a measure of the sympathetic tone and/or level of stress in the human, wherein the indication value of the sympathetic tone is a mathematical combination of the calibration threshold value and the stimulation threshold value.