Effect of thermode application pressure on thermal threshold detection

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1498-1505

  Pavlaković, Goran ^a   Klinke, Ina ^a   Pavlaković, Helena ^a   Züchner, Klaus ^a,b   Zapf, Antonia ^a,b   Bachmann, Cornelius G ^a   Graf, Bernard M ^a   Crozier, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heat transfer; Peltier element; Quantitative sensory testing; Thermal threshold; Thermode pressure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLD SENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAT TRANSFER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRESSURE; PRESSURE SENSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THERMAL THRESHOLD; THERMODE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PRESSURE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SKIN; THERMORECEPTORS;

EID: 55749101329     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21120     Document Type: Article

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