Role of distorted body image in pain

Current Rheumatology Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 488-496

  Lotze, Martin ^b   Moseley, G Lorimer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY IMAGE; BRAIN CORTEX; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PHANTOM PAIN; REVIEW; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION;

AGNOSIA; BODY IMAGE; HUMANS; PAIN; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 37349031764     PISSN: 15233774     EISSN: 15346307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11926-007-0079-x     Document Type: Review

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