Cortical reorganisation and chronic pain: Implications for rehabilitation

Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, Supplement

Volumn , Issue 41, 2003, Pages 66-72

  Flor, Herta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavioural training; Chronic pain; Cortical reorganisation; Memory for pain; Phantom limb

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CALCITONIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; KETAMINE; MEMANTINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BONE PAIN; BRAIN CORTEX REORGANIZATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHRONIC PAIN; CHRONICITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONDITIONING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FIBROMYALGIA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LIMB AMPUTATION; LOW BACK PAIN; MALADJUSTMENT; MEMORY; MOTOR CORTEX; MYALGIA; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEURALGIA; NEUROPATHY; NEUROSCIENCE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHANTOM PAIN; REHABILITATION MEDICINE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE STIMULATION;

BACK PAIN; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); CHRONIC DISEASE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; MEMANTINE; MEMORY; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHANTOM LIMB; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0037966171     PISSN: 16501969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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