Slow temporal summation of pain for assessment of central pain sensitivity and clinical pain of fibromyalgia patients.

<h4>Background</h4>In healthy individuals slow temporal summation of pain or wind-up (WU) can be evoked by repetitive heat-pulses at frequencies of ≥.33 Hz. Previous WU studies have used various stimulus frequencies and intensities to characterize central sensitization of human subjects...

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Main Authors: Roland Staud, Elizabeth E Weyl, Joseph L Riley, Roger B Fillingim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24558475/pdf/?tool=EBI