Peripheral mechanisms of muscle pain: Response behavior of muscle nociceptors and factors eliciting local muscle pain

Muscle Pain: Understanding the Mechanisms

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 49-103

  Mense, S ^a  

^a MEDICAL FACULTY MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Delayed onset muscle soreness; Inflammatory substances; Ischemic contractions; Lesions of muscle; Nociceptor sensitization; Non nociceptive free nerve endings; Properties of muscle nociceptors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859364670     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85021-2_3     Document Type: Chapter

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