Multiple session experimental pain measurement

Pain

Volumn 67, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 327-333

  Yarnitsky, David ^a   Sprecher, Elliot ^a   Zaslansky, Ruth ^a   Hemli, Jeshayachu A ^a  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

bias; heat pain; mehod of limits; repeatability; thresholds; VAS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAT INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN PARAMETERS; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030272904     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3959(96)03110-7     Document Type: Article

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