The face of pain - A pilot study to validate the measurement of facial pain expression with an improved electromyogram method

Pain Research and Management

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 15-19

  Wolf, Karsten ^a   Raedler, Thomas ^a   Henke, Kai ^a   Kiefer, Falk ^a   Mass, Reinhard ^a   Quante, Markus ^a   Wiedemann, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

EMG; Facial expression of emotions; Laser; Pain

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACE MUSCLE; FACE PAIN; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 17644377922     PISSN: 12036765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2005/643075     Document Type: Article

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