Minimal electrical stimulation intensity and duration to elicit maximal cutaneous silent period in hand

Neurophysiologie Clinique

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 291-294

  Kim, J Y ^a   Han, S J ^a   Yoon, T S ^a  

^a Ewha Womans University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cutaneous silent period; Digital cutaneous nerve; Exteroceptive Suppression; Methodology; Pain; Reflexes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CUTANEOUS SILENT PERIOD; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION DURATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION INTENSITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SKIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SKIN NERVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THENAR; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; PAIN; REFERENCE VALUES; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70949089797     PISSN: 09877053     EISSN: 17697131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucli.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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