Temporal summation in muscles and referred pain areas: An experimental human study

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1311-1313

  Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^a   Graven Nielsen, Thomas ^a   Svensson, Peter ^b   Jensen, Troels S ^c  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; Hyperalgesia; Hypoalgesia; Referred pain

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ETIOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERALGESIA; HYPOALGESIA; MALE; MYALGIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL SUMMATION;

ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MUSCLES; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030808396     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199710)20:10<1311::AID-MUS15>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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