Responses to Slowly Repeated Evoked Pain Stimuli in Fibromyalgia Patients: Evidence of Enhanced Pain Sensitization
Author(s) -
Pablo de la Coba,
Stephen Bruehl,
María MorenoPadilla,
Gustavo A. Reyes del Paso
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
pain medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.893
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1526-4637
pISSN - 1526-2375
DOI - 10.1093/pm/pnw361
Subject(s) - fibromyalgia , medicine , threshold of pain , pain tolerance , sensitization , interstimulus interval , physical therapy , chronic pain , nociception , visual analogue scale , mcgill pain questionnaire , anesthesia , physical medicine and rehabilitation , stimulation , receptor , immunology
The pathophysiology of fibromyalgia has been related to central pain sensitization. This study tested a laboratory protocol evaluating responses to slowly repeated evoked pain stimuli (SREP) that may index central pain sensitization in fibromyalgia.
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