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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Touch sensation"”.
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Slow Touch and Fast Nociception: Exploration of the Interactions Between Noxious and Innocuous Mechanical Touch Sensation
Human cutaneous somatosensation is a multimodal physiological process by which physical stimuli on the body surface activate neural substrates that consequently give rise to perceptions such as pressure/vibration, temperature, itch, and pain. When considering skin mechanosensation, the canonical …
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Relative potency and duration of analgesia following palmar digital intra-neural alcohol injection for heel pain in horses
… with pressure applied to each heel, thermal and touch sensation for each heel, and pastern circumference. Outcomes were followed serially for 112 days when nerves were harvested for histology. Results: Alcohol and formaldehyde reduced all measures of heel pain which progressed toward return, but …
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Development of a mobile-enabled vibration perception threshold device to screen for peripheral neuropathy
… damage that typically leads to a loss of tactile sensation in the feet and is a major cause of foot ulcers and leg amputations. A key limitation to current screening and ulcer prevention in India is the impracticality of current diagnostic equipment, which is expensive, bulky, and requires trained …
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Touchy-Feely, Gross Stuff
… I was constantly asking people to describe a sensation as if it were an object. In this thesis using handmade biomorphic organic based forms, I explore the perplexing concept of emotion; by making a collection of soft sculptures through which the viewer can experience these sensations. These …
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The influence of body mass index on sensorimotor block and vasopressor requirement during spinal anaesthesia for elective caesarean section
… SA, and at completion of surgery, using light touch and cold sensation in response to ethyl chloride. The primary outcomes were phenylephrine requirement in the first thirty minutes following spinal anesthesia, and maximum block height, measured by the sensation of touch and cold. Secondary …
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Risk assessment tool for diabetic neuropathy.
… diabetes. Symptoms such as tingling and loss of touch sensation are commonly associated with the early stages of neuropathy causing numbness in the feet. Early detection of this condition is necessary in order to prevent the progression of the disease. Out of many detection techniques vibration …
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From Waves to Touch: Advancing Ultrasound Haptics through Novel Modulation
… (AM and STM) can elicit sensations in the human skin for 2D shapes, there is still much to be desired in terms of spatial precision for high-speed scanning points. Specifically, when points are scanned across the human palm at speeds greater than the shear speed of sound, …