Associations among pain, PTSD, mTBI, and heart rate variability in veterans of operation enduring and Iraqi Freedom: A pilot study

Pain Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1237-1245

  Tan, Gabriel ^a,b   Fink, Brandi ^a   Dao, Tam K ^a,b   Hebert, Russell ^a   Farmer, Lorie S ^a,b   Sanders, April ^a   Pastorek, Nicholas ^a,b   Gevirtz, Richard ^c  

^a MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart Rate Variability; MTBI; Pain; Polytrauma; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; PAIN; PILOT STUDY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VETERAN; WAR; BRAIN INJURY; COMORBIDITY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BRAIN INJURIES; COMBAT DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; PAIN; PILOT PROJECTS; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 74549140328     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2009.00712.x     Document Type: Article

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