Clinical examination as a tool for identifying the origin of regional musculoskeletal pain

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-15

  Fouquet, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

Clinical diagnosis; Joint pain; Musculoskeletal pain; Neuropathic pain; Physiopathology; Regional musculoskeletal pain; Soft tissue pain

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; BRADYKININ; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CATECHOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LACTIC ACID; LEUKOTRIENE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROKININ; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOSPHATE; PROSTAGLANDIN; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; PROSTANOID; PROTON; SUBSTANCE P; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; CATECHOLAMINE;

ARTHRALGIA; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BONE PAIN; CARTILAGE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATIGUE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; JOINT; JOINT FUNCTION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; MYALGIA; NERVE ENDING; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PALPATION; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENIC PAIN; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; RHEUMATOLOGY; SHOULDER PAIN; SOCIOECONOMICS; TISSUE INJURY; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION;

EID: 0037242859     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1521-6942(02)00098-0     Document Type: Review

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