Showing papers in "European Journal of Pain in 2003"

TL;DR: This work investigated the literature of randomised placebo‐controlled trials to find out if transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) or acupuncture‐like transcutaneously electrical nerve stimulating (ALTENS) can reduce analgesic consumption after surgery.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss possible mechanisms that contribute to the development of physical deconditioning in chronic low back pain, such as avoidance behaviour and suppressive behaviour, are discussed.

TL;DR: The aim of opioid treatment is to relieve pain and improve the patient's quality of life and the use of sustained‐release opioids administered at regular intervals is recommended.

TL;DR: Early psychosocial adversities as holding a similar etiological meaning in fibromyalgia as well as in somatoform pain disorders are pointed to.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the cumulative frequencies of back arching, fall/stagger, writhe, and poor gait to compute a composite behaviour score for abdominal surgery in rats.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the incidence of CRPS‐I may be low (1%, 95% CI: 0.2 to 6%) after fractures of the distal radius and the risk factors described in literature play a minor role in the development of CRps‐I.

TL;DR: Submaximal isometric contraction of MQF and MI gave rise to a statistically significant increase in PPTs at the contracting muscle, the resting homologous contralateral muscle and at the distant resting muscle indicating that generalised pain inhibitory mechanisms were activated.

TL;DR: The paper addresses issues related to the clinical relevance of currently employed animal models of neuropathic pain and the inability to translate clinical symptoms and signs into pathophysiological mechanisms.

TL;DR: Evidence gathered in support of a mechanistic model based on presynaptic interactions in the spinal dorsal horn between the terminals of low‐threshold mechanoreceptors and of nociceptors is reviewed and potential molecular mechanisms that may underlie this model and therefore be responsible for the development of secondary hyperalgesia are identified.

TL;DR: To assess the course of chronic benign pain in childhood and adolescence longitudinally, a large number of children and adolescents in the United States have experienced both acute and long-term benign pain.

TL;DR: Intramuscular infusion of a combination of Bk, 5‐HT, His, and PGE2 induced a prolonged moderate pain and tenderness in healthy humans, and this model may be a valuable tool in future studies of the pathophysiological mechanisms of myofascial pain.

TL;DR: A multi‐modal psychophysical assessment regime and a neurophysiological method (nociceptive reflex) are used for the characterisation of the experimentally induced hyperalgesia.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed an in vivo model demonstrating sensory and motor interactions comparable to those seen in patients presenting with lateral epicondylalgia (i.e., deep tissue pain and hyperalgesia localised to specific sites in the wrist extensors, attenuation of wrist extension force).

TL;DR: It is concluded that muscle pain is followed by a period with profound depression of MEPs amplitudes in the resting muscle, but that these changes are at least in part due to a lasting depression of the excitability of the motoneurones in the spinal cord.

TL;DR: Whether anxiety differentially effects men and women's report of experimentally induced pain is examined to examine further whether the effect of anxiety in modulating pain sensitivity is specific to men only.

TL;DR: The present study shows that pharmacological levels of adenosine in skeletal muscle did not induce pain, suggesting that the pain after ischaemic contractions is mediated by other populations of nociceptors in muscle and/or other tissues than excited by hypertonic saline.

TL;DR: The German short‐form ASES‐D is a further step toward an internationally comparable assessment of disease‐related self‐efficacy in FM and could be used in predicting the treatment outcome in FM patients.

TL;DR: Aδ‐fibers are the main peripheral mediators for the perception of brief CO2 laser stimuli and that they provide more sensory information than C‐fiberers, according to Signal Detection Theory analysis.

TL;DR: Findings suggest altered central processing of somatosensory input from the area of referred pain in patients with trapezius myalgia.

TL;DR: A more pronounced impairment of C‐fibre‐mediated innocuous warm perception in patients with painful neuropathy is demonstrated, which in the setting of impaired or absent heat pain perception suggests a more generalised loss of function in somatosensory C‐ fibre channels.

TL;DR: It is found that the normal pattern of pain perception is stable and not altered by single tonic pain stimulation, and tonic heat pain, despite relatively high VAS scores, does not cause a change in the scoring of subsequent phasic stimuli.

TL;DR: Systemic administration of NMDA receptor antagonists decreases the nociception observed during the late phase of the formalin test, and is associated with analgesia without causing side effects.

TL;DR: It is shown that low doses of non‐steroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs relieve episodic tension‐type headache (ETH) and the use of these drugs in clinical trials is a viable option for the treatment of migraine.

TL;DR: It is important that good systematic, clinical and experimental research is done to show the spectrum of pain, the mechanisms of this pain and to improve the possibilities to treat neurological pain.

TL;DR: This study focuses on the situation of patients with persistent somatoform pain disorder, which has been investigated widely in patients with chronic pain.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the attentional bias in patients with chronic pain using the emotional Stroop task with personalized pain words and found that patients were slower on the threat words and displayed the classical Stroop interference effect for color words.

TL;DR: A study on mainly non‐cancer‐related pain patients was performed concerning clinical patient data used for pain history‐taking and diagnosis, and the most important pain mechanisms, were nociceptive and peripheral neurogenic.

TL;DR: It is suggested that neurostimulation improves angina pectoris with a concomitant improvement of myocardial perfusion in cardiac syndrome X.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the perception of synthetic heat most likely arises from the fusion of signals dependent on unmyelinated low threshold cold and warm receptors, and is not dependent on A‐δ cold fibres, and a contribution of nociceptors is quite unlikely.

TL;DR: Tolperisone hydrochloride provides a small, albeit significant reduction in the perceived intensity of experimental jaw‐muscle pain whereas the present dose had no effect on the short‐latency jaw‐stretch reflex.