Search for dissertations about: "Heterotopic noxious conditioning stimulation"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words Heterotopic noxious conditioning stimulation.

  2. 1. On the function endogenous pain controlling systems in healthy subjects and patients with peripheral or central neuropathic pain

    Author : Birgitta Tuveson; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Painful peripheral neuropathy; Central post-stroke pain; Dynamic mechanical allodynia; Endogenous pain modulation; Heterotopic noxious conditioning stimulation; Quantitative sensory testing; Ondansetron;

    Abstract : Introduction and aim: Activity in the nociceptive system is modulated by descending inhibitory and facilitatory supraspinal endogenous control. Altered balance between inhibition and facilitation has been suggested to at least partly explain the maintenance of some persistent pain conditions. READ MORE

  4. 2. Somatosensory dysfunctin in fibromyaligia : implications for pathophysiological mechanisms

    Author : Eva Kosek; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : allodynia; diffuse noxious inhibitory controls DNIC ; fibromyalgia; hyperesthesia; isometric contraction; pain modulation; pain inhibition; pressure algometry; quantitative sensory testing; sensitivity; sensitization; tourniquet test; v;

    Abstract : Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain syndrome characterized by generalized pain, tenderness, disturbed sleep and pronounced fatigue. The pathophysiology is unknown but peripheral mechanisms (i.e., muscle ischemia) as well as central mechanisms (dysfunction in endogenous pain modulation) have been implicated. READ MORE

  5. 3. Pain influences somatosensory perception : an experimental and clinical study

    Author : Ann-Sofie Leffler; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Muscle pain; referred pain; hypoaesthesia; allodynia; musculoskeletal; pain; sensory abnormality; quantitative sensory testing; trapezius myalgia; somatosensory perception; perception thresholds; diffuse noxious inhibitory controls DNIC ; central hyperexcitability; tourniquet test; cold-pressor test.;

    Abstract : The underlying mechanisms maintaining long-term pain localised to musculoskeletal structures and joints are not infrequently unknown. In routine clinical work with such patients insufficient attention has been paid to phenomena indicating altered excitability of the central nervous system (CNS). READ MORE