Central sensitization fibromyalgia and other musculoskeletal disorders

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 355-361

  Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^a   Graven Nielsen, Thomas ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLODYNIA; BONE PAIN; CHRONIC PAIN; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; MYALGIA; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; METABOLISM; NERVE ENDING; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

NEUROPEPTIDE;

FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; NERVE ENDINGS; NEUROPEPTIDES; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN;

EID: 0642274203     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-003-0034-0     Document Type: Review

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