Evidence for spinal cord hypersensitivity in chronic pain after whiplash injury and in fibromyalgia

Pain

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 7-15

  Banic, Borut ^a   Petersen Felix, Steen ^a   Andersen, Ole K ^b   Radanov, Bogdan P ^c   Villiger, P M ^a   Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^b   Curatolo, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c SCHULTHESS CLINIC   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Central hypersensitivity; Fibromyalgia; Nociceptive reflex; Pain; Spinal cord; Whiplash

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; HYPOTHESIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NOCICEPTION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL REFLEX; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURAL NERVE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; WHIPLASH INJURY; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

EID: 0347985692     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2003.05.001     Document Type: Article

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