Increased pericranial tenderness, decreased pressure pain threshold, and headache clinical parameters in chronic tension-type headache patients

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 346-352

  Fernández De Las Peñas, César ^a   Cuadrado, Maria Luz ^a   Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^b   Ge, Hong You ^b   Pareja, Juan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Headache clinical parameters; Pericranial tenderness; Pressure pain threshold; Tension type headache

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC TENSION HEADACHE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NECK PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN PARAMETERS; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 36; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK MUSCLES; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PALPATION; PRESSURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TENDONS; TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE;

EID: 34247467355     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AJP.0b013e31803b3770     Document Type: Article

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