Pressure pain threshold and pain tolerance in episodic tension-type headache do not depend on the presence of headache

Cephalalgia

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 174-178

  Bove, G M ^a,b   Nilsson, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Headache; Pain threshold; Pain tolerance; Tenderness; Tension type headache

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOCICEPTION; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; TEMPORALIS MUSCLE; TENSION HEADACHE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PRESSURE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE;

EID: 0032936487     PISSN: 03331024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-2982.1999.1903174.x     Document Type: Article

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