Pain thresholds
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) priming of 1Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) modulates experimental pain thresholds
... modulate pain thresholds have shown effectiveness of both anodal [1] and cathodal [2] stimula- tion in increasing pain thresholds ...consistent pain threshold reduction difficult to ...
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Sleep quality, arousal and pain thresholds in migraineurs: a blinded controlled polysomnographic study
... As slow bursts are frequent before and during slow wave sleep, especially in the first sleep cycles [35], these slow bursts are possibly related to sleep pressure or sleep need. Then, both increased N3 sleep and more ...
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The effect of manipulation and mobilisation on pressure pain thresholds in the thoracic spine
... High velocity low amplitude (HVLA) thrust manipulation and mobilisation are commonly used by manual therapists to relieve spinal pain and improve mobility. The aim of this controlled, single blinded study was to ...
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Victoria University THE EFFECT OF MOBILISATION ON PRESSURE PAIN THRESHOLDS IN THE LUMBAR SPINE
... Posterior-anterior manual springing of the lumbar spinous processes was performed on the participant to determine the most tender level as described by the participant. This was then marked with a skin pencil. The ...
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Vibratory stimulation increase the electro cutaneous sensory detection and pain thresholds in women but not in men
... in pain perception have been reported [24,27], the gender differences appear to be rather ...report pain and gender of experiment assistant, and to catstrophizing ...
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Victoria University The effect of Manipulation on pressure pain thresholds in the lumbar spine in asymptomatic participants
... The sham function group had a significantly lower PPT post-intervention value than the ‘pre-’ (t=0.046, -17.15 kPa/cm 2 , ±45.02) and this was an unexpected finding; ideal sham group behaviour should not have ...
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Pain Thresholds in the Lumbar Spine
... local pain and tenderness is pressure algometry. 12,13 The pressure-pain threshold (PPT) of an individual is defined as the minimum force that induces pain or discomfort and this is assessed by the ...
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Association of the resolvin precursor 17 HDHA, but not D or E series resolvins, with heat pain sensitivity and osteoarthritis pain in humans
... heat pain thresholds in TwinsUK was carried out using linear regressions using the log transformed HPT and HSPT as the outcome and adjusting for family relatedness, age and ...WOMAC pain scores and ...
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Headache and mechanical sensitization of human pericranial muscles after repeated intake of monosodium glutamate (MSG)
... spontaneous pain (if any) on a 0- 10 numerical rating scale (NRS, 0 = no pain, 10 = most im- aginable ...pressure pain thresholds (PPT) and pressure pain tolerance levels (PPTol) of the ...
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Visual distortion of body size modulates pain perception
... heat-pain thresholds, which directly measure sensory aspects of acute pain (Yarnitsky, Sprecher, Zaslansky, & Hemli, 1995), while participants viewed their own hand or a neutral object that ...
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Distraction and the processing of pain : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University
... Distraction is useful for increasing pain thresholds and tolerances and reducing ratings of acute pain and is often incorporated in pain management programmes for chronic pain.. However,[r] ...
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<p>Sleep, Experimental Pain and Clinical Pain in Patients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain and Healthy Controls</p>
... laboratory pain testing to examine effects of sleep on pain were ...implemented. Pain testing consisted of the assessment of pressure pain thresholds (PPTs), followed by the assessment ...
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Quantitative sensory testing in physically active individuals and patients who underwent multidisciplinary pain therapy in the longitudinal course
... detection thresholds, thermal pain thresholds and blunt pressure pain thresh- olds were measured at various sites ...group pain was treated in multidisciplinary pain therapy for ...
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Tactile, thermal, and electrical thresholds in patients with and without phantom limb pain after traumatic lower limb amputation
... phantom pain demonstrate a primary novel find- ing of significantly decreased EPT in the sound limb in the PLP ...or pain thresholds was found between the PLP group and the non-PLP ...phantom ...
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Cerebrospinal fluid levels of opioid peptides in fibromyalgia and chronic low back pain
... The pain present in FM may induce antinociceptive neural mechanisms with the release of opioid ...temic pain thresholds, subjective complaints, and quality of life measures in 3 sets of ...
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Assessing the Analgesic Effects of Sucrose to Cold Pressor Pain in Human Adults
... on pain responsivity to a cold pressor test (CPT) in 8 to 11-year-old children ...children’s pain threshold, but had no af- fect on pain tolerance or pain intensity ...pressor pain. ...
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Hypnotic relaxation results in elevated thresholds of sensory detection but not of pain detection
... on pain thresholds, independent of the modality that is the source of pain (thermal, mechanical, ...about pain perception and the cerebral processing of nociceptive data ...
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Preoperative neuropathic pain like symptoms and central pain mechanisms in knee osteoarthritis predicts poor outcome 6 months after total knee replacement surgery
... detection thresholds D101X X and pain tolerance D102X X thresholds was conducted on the lower ...of pain D103X X was assessed using 10 D104X X sequential cuff stimulations and a von Frey ...
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Somatosensation in OA: exploring the relationships of pain sensitization, vibratory perception and spontaneous pain
... pressure pain thresh- olds at all ipsilateral and contralateral sites, suggesting that there is a relationship between these different mea- sures of sensitization/pain ...spontaneous pain had ...
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The influence of repeated pain stimulation on the emotional aspect of pain: a preliminary study in healthy volunteers
... Basal pain sensitivity testing involved a pain threshold and pain tolerance ...the pain stimulation procedure, pain threshold and pain tolerance were assessed using a ther- mal ...
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