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Serge Marchand

Researcher at Université de Sherbrooke

Publications -  142
Citations -  7802

Serge Marchand is an academic researcher from Université de Sherbrooke. The author has contributed to research in topics: Chronic pain & Diffuse noxious inhibitory control. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 142 publications receiving 6997 citations. Previous affiliations of Serge Marchand include Université du Québec & Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke.

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Widespread pain in fibromyalgia is related to a deficit of endogenous pain inhibition

TL;DR: A deficit of endogenous pain inhibitory systems in fibromyalgia but not in chronic low back pain is supported, and the treatments proposed to fibromyalgic patients should aim at stimulating the activity of those endogenous systems.
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Descending analgesia – When the spine echoes what the brain expects

TL;DR: It is found that contrary to expectations of analgesia, expectations of hyperalgesia completely blocked the analgesic effects of descending inhibition on spinal nociceptive reflexes, providing direct evidence that the modulation of pain by expectations is mediated by endogenous pain modulatory systems affecting nocICEptive signal processing at the earliest stage of the central nervous system.
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Is TENS purely a placebo effect? A controlled study on chronic low back pain *

TL;DR: It is concluded that TENS should be used as a short‐term analgesic procedure in a multidisciplinary program for low back pain rather than as an exclusive or long‐term treatment.