Pain following controlled cutaneous insertion of needles with different diameters

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 37-43

  Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^a   Egekvist, Henrik ^b   Bjerring, Peter ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Experimental needle pain; Pain assessment; Skin trauma; Volunteers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INJECTION; NEEDLE; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; NEEDLES; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SKIN;

EID: 33746365602     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: 13691651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08990220600700925     Document Type: Article

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