Internal validity of inter-digital web pinching as a model for perceptual diffuse noxious inhibitory controls-induced hypoalgesia in healthy humans

European Journal of Pain

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-52

  Streff, Anouk ^a   Michaux, Gilles ^a   Anton, Fernand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Baroreflex hypoalgesia; Endogenous pain modulation; Heterotopic noxious counter stimulation; Psychophysics; Psychophysiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; FEMALE; HETEROTOPIC NOXIOUS COUNTER STIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOALGESIA; INTERDIGITAL WEB PINCHING; INTERNAL VALIDITY; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; WATER IMMERSION;

ADULT; BAROREFLEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN PERCEPTION; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PRESSURE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650739479     PISSN: 10903801     EISSN: 15322149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpain.2010.05.011     Document Type: Article

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