Quantitative sensory testing in patients with chronic unilateral radicular neuropathic pain and active spinal cord stimulation

Neuromodulation

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 239-247

  Rasche, Dirk ^a,b   Ruppolt, Marc A ^a   Kress, Bodo ^a   Unterberg, Andreas ^a   Tronnier, Volker M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Neuropathic pain; Quantitative sensory testing; Spinal cord stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD SENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAT SENSATION; HUMAN; LIMB PAIN; MALE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PARESTHESIA; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE SENSORY TESTING; RADICULAR PAIN; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; TOUCH; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 33845665018     PISSN: 10947159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1403.2006.00066.x     Document Type: Article

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