Deficient conditioned pain modulation after spinal cord injury correlates with clinical spontaneous pain measures

Pain

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 260-272

  Albu, Sergiu ^a   Gomez Soriano, Julio ^a,b,c   Avila Martin, Gerardo ^a   Taylor, Julian ^a  

^a Sensorimotor Function Group   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioned pain modulation; Contact heat evoked potentials; Cz AFz noxious evoked potentials; Endogenous pain modulation; Neuropathic pain symptoms; Pain habituation; Pain interference; Pain severity; Quantitative thermal sensory testing; Temporal summation; Tonic thermal test stimuli

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; LORAZEPAM; PREGABALIN; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOME; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; PAIN INTENSITY; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; TONIC HEAT PAIN INTENSITY; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC USE; HEAT; NEURALGIA; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

ADULT; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84942683557     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.j.pain.0000460306.48701.f9     Document Type: Article

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