Evoked potentials after painful cutaneous electrical stimulation depict pain relief during a conditioned pain modulation

Abstract Background Conditioned pain modulation (CPM) evaluates the pain modulating effect of a noxious conditioning stimulus (CS) on another noxious test stimulus (TS), mostly based solely on subjective pain ratings. We used painful cutaneous electrical stimulation (PCES) to induce TS in a novel CP...

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Main Authors: Oliver Höffken, Özüm S. Özgül, Elena K. Enax-Krumova, Martin Tegenthoff, Christoph Maier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-08-01
Series:BMC Neurology
Subjects:
CPM
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12883-017-0946-7