Increased motor cortex inhibition as a marker of compensation to chronic pain in knee osteoarthritis

Abstract This study aims to investigate the associative and multivariate relationship between different sociodemographic and clinical variables with cortical excitability as indexed by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) markers in subjects with chronic pain caused by knee osteoarthritis (OA). T...

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Published in:Scientific Reports
Main Authors: Marcel Simis, Marta Imamura, Paulo S. de Melo, Anna Marduy, Kevin Pacheco-Barrios, Paulo E. P. Teixeira, Linamara Battistella, Felipe Fregni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-12-01
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-03281-0