Central nervous mechanisms of muscle pain: Ascending pathways, central sensitization, and pain-modulating systems

Muscle Pain: Understanding the Mechanisms

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 105-175

  Mense, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85021-2_4     Document Type: Chapter

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