Examiner expectancy effects in the measurement of pressure pain thresholds

Pain

Volumn 74, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 163-170

  Ohrbach, Richard ^a   Crow, Heidi ^a,b   Kamer, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Expectancy; Muscle pain; Pressure pain threshold

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTANCY; FACE PAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELIABILITY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0031939375     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(97)00174-7     Document Type: Article

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