Pain in fibromyalgia and discriminativen power of the instruments: Visual Analog Scale. Dolorimetry and the McGill Pain Questionnaire;Dor na fibromialgia e poder de discriminação dos instrumentos: Escala Visual Analógica, Dolorimetria e Questionário McGill de dor

Acta Reumatologica Portuguesa

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 345-351

  Marques, Amélia Pasqual ^a   Assumpção, Ana ^a   Matsutani, Luciana A ^b   Bragança Pereira, Carlos A ^a   Lage, Lais ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FIEO University   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Assessment; Fibromyalgia; McGill pain questionnaire; Pain threshold; Visual analog scale

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 58849126306     PISSN: 0303464X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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