Deep muscle pain, tender points and recovery in acute whiplash patients: A 1-year follow-up study

Pain

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-73

  Kasch, Helge ^a   Qerama, Erisela ^a   Kongsted, Alice ^b   Bach, Flemming W ^a   Bendix, Tom ^b   Jensen, Troels S ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Muscle; Pain; Pressure algometry; Prospective study; Stimulus response; Whiplash injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGOMETRY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MYALGIA; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIZATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; WHIPLASH INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; DENMARK; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; WHIPLASH INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 53549098928     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2008.07.008     Document Type: Article

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