Electrodiagnostic functional sensory evaluation of the patient with pain: A review of the neuroselective current perception threshold and pain tolerance threshold

Pain Digest

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 219-230

  Katims, Jefferson J ^a,b  

^a Department of Research

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLODYNIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL MEDICINE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EMPIRICISM; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; HYPERESTHESIA; HYPESTHESIA; IMPEDANCE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE STIMULATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION;

EID: 0031667291     PISSN: 09389016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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