Open AccessFeatures of the alteration of poststimulus thresholds of the pain and its subjective characteristics in patients with neuropathic pain in the process of empatho-technique
Author(s) -
Vera A. Ishinova,
I. A. Svyatogor
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
mediko-socialʹnaâ èkspertisa i reabilitaciâ/mediko-socialʹnaâ èkspertiza i reabilitaciâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2412-2092
pISSN - 1560-9537
DOI - 10.18821/1560-9537-2016-191-17-21
Subject(s) - nociception , neuropathic pain , stimulus (psychology) , psychogenic disease , phantom pain , medicine , phantom limb , anesthesia , audiology , psychology , amputation , surgery , radiology , receptor , psychotherapist
In the work there are presented results of the investigation offeatures of the alteration of thresholds of the post-stimulus pain and its subjective characteristics in patients with phantom pain syndrome and psychogenic pain in the process of empatho-technique. There was studied the role ofpsychophysiological autoregulation in the restoration of sensitivity in patients undergone to amputation of lower extremities. The use of empatho-technique was found to allow not only to significantly reduce the intensity ofphantom, and psychogenic pain, but to fully restore sensitivity to ultrasonic stimuli in the psychogenic pain and significantly eliminate cases of its disturbance in the phantom pain. It is assumed that the reducing influence of empatho-technique on the intensity of the perception ofpain can be realized by means of activation of the antinociceptive system, enhancement of its inhibitory effect on the painful stimulus, as well as decline in the activation of the nociceptive system, with a subsequent decrease in the intensity of sensations ofpain and restoration of sensitivity.