Tissue characteristics during temporal summation of pressure-evoked pain

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 255-265

  Finocchietti, Sara ^a   Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^a   Graven Nielsen, Thomas ^a  

^a Laboratory for Musculoskeletal Pain and Motor Control   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Muscle pain; Pressure algometry; Temporal summation

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE STRAIN; MUSCLE TISSUE; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRESSURE SENSATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; TENDON STRESS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOCICEPTIVE PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PRESSURE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862853069     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3085-9     Document Type: Article

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