Effects of adipose thickness and muscle hardness on pressure pain sensitivity

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 414-424

  Finocchietti, Sara ^a   Mørch, Carsten Dahl ^a   Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^a   Graven Nielsen, Thomas ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

finite element model; muscle hardness; muscle pain; pressure algometry

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE THICKNESS; ADULT; AGED; ALGOMETRY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MUSCLE HARDNESS; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE STRESS; MYALGIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRESSURE; PRESSURE PAIN TOLERANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE LEVEL;

EID: 79955832855     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: 15365409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AJP.0b013e31820c5353     Document Type: Article

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