Sensory hypoaesthesia is a feature of chronic whiplash but not chronic idiopathic neck pain

Manual Therapy

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 48-53

  Chien, Andy ^a,b   Sterling, Michele ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Neck pain; Quantitative Sensory Testing; Whiplash

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPREHENSIVE QUANTITATIVE SENSORY TESTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK PAIN; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER; WHIPLASH INJURY;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPESTHESIA; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECK PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WHIPLASH INJURIES;

EID: 73749086998     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2009.05.012     Document Type: Article

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