Pain sensitivity in pericranial and extracranial regions

Cephalalgia

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 456-462

  Ashina, Sait ^a   Jensen, R ^a   Bendtsen, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Central sensitization; Muscle pain sensitivity; Myofascial pain; Temporal summation; Tension type headache

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; NECK MUSCLE; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRESSURE; SHOULDER; SKIN; TENSION HEADACHE; TIBIA; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE;

ADULT; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PAIN THRESHOLD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0037783850     PISSN: 03331024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-2982.2003.00559.x     Document Type: Article

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