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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"quantitative sensory testing"”.
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Quantitative sensory testing for evaluation chronic arthritis or local anesthesia
Background: Properly functioning sensory systems are crucial in perception of external stimuli. Different modalities such as touch, temperature, and pain can only be appreciated with intact sensory pathways from the peripheral receptors to the cerebral cortex via the spinal cord. Pain is a sensory …
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A randomized comparison of individual cognitive-behavioural therapy and pelvic floor rehabilitation in the treatment of provoked vestibulodynia
… pain, psychological, and sexual variables, quantitative sensory testing, and a pelvic floor muscle (PFM) evaluation. The primary outcome was change in intercourse pain intensity. Secondary outcomes included changes in other features of vestibular pain (e.g., frequency), cotton-swab test pain …
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Shoulder pain after stroke: prevalence, contributing factors and consequences in daily life
… 25 without PSSP) and 11 healthy controls, somatosensory abnormalities were assessed with thermal and mechanical thresholds using the Quantitative Sensory Testing (QST) method. No significant difference in QST measurements were found between the groups with and without PSSP, but both stroke groups …
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The Relationship Between Psychosocial Functioning and Diffuse Noxious Inhibitory Control Function in Women With Provoked Vestibulodynia and Pain Free Controls
… brain, it is thought to be dependent upon both sensory and affective pain components. In the current study, 20 women with PVD and 24 controls underwent sensory testing to determine the integrity of DNIC function. Unexpectedly, women with PVD displayed a DNIC response of greater magnitude than …
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Multiple Myeloma and Its Treatment Alter Peripheral Nervous System Structure and Function
… often provokes the development of small fiber, sensory, distal neuropathy in patients. MM is caused by malignancy of plasma cells, which indirectly compromises multiple organ systems. Therefore, the contribution of underlying disease versus chemotherapeutic treatment on the development of …
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Peripheral polyneuropathy in type 2 diabetes mellitus and impaired glucose tolerance. Correlations between morphology, neurophysiology, and clinical findings
… neurophysiological tests (nerve conduction and quantitative sensory testing) at baseline and at follow-up (6–10 years later). Vibrotactile sense of the index (median nerve) and little fingers (ulnar nerve) was assessed in 58 subjects (23 type 2 diabetes, 7 IGT, 28 NGT) with persistent glucose …