Pain relief through an antinociceptive effect after radiofrequency application

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 805-810

  Takahashi, Norimasa ^a   Tasto, James P ^b   Ritter, Mark ^b   Ochiai, Nobuyasu ^a   Ohtori, Seiji ^c   Moriya, Hideshige ^c   Amiel, David ^a,d  

^a University of California San Diego ^*  (United States)

^b San Diego Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center   (United States)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar radiofrequency; Chronic tendinosis; Microtenotomy; Pain relief

Indexed keywords

AVIDIN; BETA TUBULIN; BIOTIN; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOT PAD; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; RAT; SCAR; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ANIMAL; CATHETER ABLATION; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TENDINITIS;

ANIMALS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CATHETER ABLATION; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NEUROPEPTIDES; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TENDINOPATHY;

EID: 34250371387     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: 15523365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546506297085     Document Type: Article

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