The nature of anterior knee pain following injection of hypertonic saline into the infrapatellar fat pad

Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 116-121

  Bennell, Kim ^a   Hodges, Paul ^b   Mellor, Rebecca ^b   Bexander, Catharina ^c   Souvlis, Tina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Experimental pain; Infrapatellar fat pad; Knee; Nociception

Indexed keywords

FAT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INJECTION; KNEE PAIN; MALE; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATELLA; PATHOLOGY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; REST; SENSORY STIMULATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0345768702     PISSN: 07360266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0736-0266(03)00162-1     Document Type: Article

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