Central sensitization and altered central pain processing in chronic low back pain: Fact or myth?

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 625-638

  Roussel, Nathalie A ^a,b,c   Nijs, Jo ^a,b,d   Meeus, Mira ^b,c   Mylius, Veit ^e,f   Fayt, Cécile ^g   Oostendorp, Rob ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Hogeschool Antwerpen   (Belgium)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^e PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^f HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

^g Haute Ecole Leonard de Vinci   (Belgium)

^h RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

central nervous system; chronic pain; hyperalgesia; hyperexcitability; low back pain; neuroplasticity

Indexed keywords

N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BRAIN FUNCTION; CATASTROPHIZING; CENTRAL SENSITIZATION; CHRONIC PAIN; DEPRESSION; DIFFUSE NOXIOUS INHIBITORY CONTROL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXERCISE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LOW BACK PAIN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MYALGIA; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN PROCESSING; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPATIAL SUMMATION; SPINAL REFLEX; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

BRAIN; CHRONIC PAIN; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PAIN PERCEPTION;

EID: 84879851205     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: 15365409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AJP.0b013e31826f9a71     Document Type: Review

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