Widespread mechanical pain hypersensitivity as sign of central sensitization in unilateral epicondylalgia a blinded, controlled study

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 555-561

  Fernández Carnero, Josué ^a,b   Fernández De Las Peñas, César ^a,b   De La Llave Rincón, Ana Isabel ^a,b   Ge, Hong You ^c   Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^c  

^a Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine ^*  (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Central sensitization; Lateral epicondylalgia; Pain; Pressure pain thresholds

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ELBOW; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; INNERVATION; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STIMULATION; TENNIS ELBOW;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELBOW; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PRESSURE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SEX FACTORS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TENNIS ELBOW;

EID: 70350731772     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: 15365409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AJP.0b013e3181a68a040     Document Type: Article

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