Test-retest reliability of thermal quantitative sensory testing on two sites within the L5 dermatome of the lumbar spine and lower extremity

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 579, Issue , 2014, Pages 157-162

  Knutti, I A ^a,b   Suter, M R ^c   Opsommer, E ^b  

^a BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Pain measurement; Pain threshold; Quantitative sensory testing; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DERMATOME; FACE; FEMALE; FOOT; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; BACK; COLD; DIAGNOSTIC USE; HEAT; LEG; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSATION; SPINE; TEMPERATURE SENSE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; COLD TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSATION; SPINE; THERMOSENSING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907368877     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2014.07.023     Document Type: Article

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