Sympathetic facilitation of hyperalgesia evoked from myofascial tender and trigger points in patients with unilateral shoulder pain

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1545-1550

  Ge, Hong You ^a   Fernández de las Peñas, César ^b   Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^a  

^a Center of Sensory Motor Interaction   (Denmark)

^b Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Muscle pain; Pressure pain; Referred pain; Trigger point

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; INFRASPINATUS MUSCLE; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERRED PAIN; SENSITIZATION; SHOULDER PAIN; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; SYMPTOM; THORAX PRESSURE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRIGGER POINT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FACIAL MUSCLES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRESSURE; SHOULDER PAIN; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 33745389319     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2006.03.026     Document Type: Article

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