abstract：:Two cases of reflex sympathetic dystrophy in the upper extremity of patients with traumatic cervical spinal cord injuries are reported. Both patients had very incomplete lesions with early neurological recovery, suggesting an underlying central cord syndrome. Although reflex sympathetic dystrophy is often seen followi...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Wainapel SF

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intradental nerve activity (INA) induced by cold stimulation of human teeth is regularly accompanied by pain perception. In this study a mathematical model was developed in order to quantify the relationship between INA and pain. In 5 patients (45 experiments) INA was recorded using electrodes implanted in lower incis...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Fors U,Ahlquist ML,Skagerwall R,Edwall LGA,Haegerstam GAT

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Questions concerning stump, phantom and other pain problems as well as demographic data were mailed to 5000 Americans whose amputations were connected with military service. Fifty-five percent responded and of these, 78% reported phantom pain. No predisposing factors, other than presence of stump pain, correlated with...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Sherman RA,Sherman CJ,Parker L

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single units were recorded in dorsal roots or in the sciatic nerve of anaesthetised rats. It was shown by making sections, by stimulation and by collision that some ongoing nerve impulses were originating from the dorsal root ganglia and not from the central or peripheral ends of the axons. In a sample of 2731 intact ...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Wall PD,Devor M

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-seven patients (74%) who had completed a multidisciplinary pain program returned mailed questionnaires assessing both outcome and compliance measures. Significant treatment gains were observed at follow-up. Compliance with prescribed therapeutic regimens was low, averaging around 42% for individual regimens. Com...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Lutz RW,Silbret M,Olshan N

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pain was induced in rats by daily injections of complete Freund's adjuvant into hind paws. Daily changes of pain threshold and endorphin (ED) content and their receptors in 4 divided parts: cortex, diencephalon-mesencephalon containing striatum (D-M), pons-medulla (P-M) and spinal cord, were measured. Decrease...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Yonehara N,Kudo T,Iwatsubo K,Maeda S,Saito K,Inoki R

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blockade of the noradrenergic input to the nucleus raphe magnus (NRM) by the injection of alpha-adrenergic antagonists produces hypoalgesia. Previous studies show that this hypoalgesia is blocked by the intrathecal injection of either phentolamine or methysergide. The present study demonstrates that depletion of spina...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Sagen J,Winker MA,Proudfit HK

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty subjects were given a placebo (intravenous saline), which was described as a known pain killer, once a week for 3 consecutive weeks. Experimental ischemic arm pain was produced prior to the placebo and again 1 h later. In a double blind procedure, half of the subjects received 10 mg of naloxone after placebo; t...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Grevert P,Albert LH,Goldstein A

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the central grey matter (CG) on pain sensitivity has been investigated in rats. It has been demonstrated that baseline pain thresholds, tested by the hot plate method (HPM) after surgical operation, were significantly greater in CG-lesioned rats than in controls. Baseline tail flick latencies did not dif...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Bragin EO,Vasilenko GF,Durinjan RA

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Return of sensory nerve function in rat molars following cut or crush injury to the inferior alveolar nerve (IAN) was measured by observing the jaw opening reflex (JOR) response of the digastric muscle to electrical stimulation of individual molars or the gingiva. The IAN was injured from a lateral approach to the man...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Berger RL,Byers MR,Calkins DF

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brief electrical pulses were applied to the pulp of individual pre-molar teeth of 14 healthy, adult volunteers via wire electrodes implanted and sealed in dentine. The sensation threshold was estimated in each individual by the Two-Alternative Forced-Choice Staircase (2AFCS) method. Seven, 5 or 4 stimulus intensities ...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Fernandes de Lima VM,Chatrian GE,Lettich E,Canfield RC,Miller CR,Soso MJ

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study to determine how children describe the experience of pain, we queried a convenience sample of 100 children in hospitals and 114 children in church and private schools who were between 9 and 12 years old. The questions were designed to seek correlations by age among boys and girls, and between hospitalized a...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Savedra M,Gibbons P,Tesler M,Ward J,Wegner C

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine if some commonly used admission variables could predict treatment outcome on a multidisciplinary pain center. Specifically, it was designed as a prospective study of an index proposed by Maruta et al. The subjects were 104 patients. The 4 outcome measures used were staff judg...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Aronoff GM,Evans WO

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron microscopy was used to study normal human extracted teeth in order to define the junctions between sensory nerve endings and other cells in external pulp and inner dentin at the crown tip. Two sets of associated cells were found: (1) Connective tissue cells. The pulpal fibroblast newtork made occasional desmo...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Byers MR,Neuhaus SJ,Gehrig JD

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between subjective measurements of pain (pain report and threshold of sensation) and evoked potentials following painful electrical stimulation of tooth pulp was evaluated after intake of different weak analgesics. These time-response curves for the dolorimetric parameters were correlated to the in vi...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Rohdewald P,Derendorf H,Drehsen G,Elger CE,Knoll O

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature on cognitive and cognitive-behavioral methods for pain control is selectively reviewed, with particular focus on controlled studies. Such methods include the provision of preparatory information, cognitive coping skills or strategies, the provision of preparatory information plus some form of coping ski...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Tan SY

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin conductance and heart rate measures obtained from subjects previous to, during, and after their performance of the cold pressor task were correlated with their responses to the McGill Pain Questionnaire administered immediately after the completion of the cold pressor task. A reliable relationship between skin co...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Dowling J

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(1) Capsaicin solution was applied for 15 min around a 1 cm length of sciatic nerve in the mid upper leg of adult rats. (2) Electron microscopic examinations of the nerve in the treated region after 14 days shows no signs of degeneration of either myelinated or unmyelinated fibres attributable to the capsaicin. (3) Fl...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Ainsworth A,Hall P,Wall PD,Allt G,MacKenzie ML,Gibson S,Polak JM

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatovisceral convergence was demonstrated in recordings from 15 of 16 spinothalamic tract cells in the lower thoracic spinal cords of anesthetized monkeys. Inputs were produced by mechanical (or sometimes electrical) stimulation of the skin over the lower trunk and by electrical stimulation of the greater splanchnic...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Foreman RD,Hancock MB,Willis WD

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topically applied norepinephrine, dopamine, serotonin, GABA and glycine, and systemically administered clonidine, L-DOPA (plus carbidopa) and 5-hydroxytryptophan completely suppressed the cutaneous hyper-irritability produced in the trigeminal sensory distribution by picrotoxin overlying the caudal medulla. Cholinergi...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Sakai Y,Nishijima Y,Mikuni N,Iwata N

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pain patients reported pain intensity on each of 3 pain intensity scales, the visual analog, numerical and adjectival scales, and then ranked the scales in order of perceived best communication of pain intensity. All patients were able to complete an adjectival scale but 11% were unable to complete a visual an...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Kremer E,Atkinson HJ,Ignelzi RJ

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper describes the effect of vibratory stimulation on pain of dental origin in 36 patients. The patients were from a clinic for dental surgery and all had suffered pain from pulpal inflammation, apical periodontitis or postoperative pain following extraction of an impacted wisdom tooth for more than 2 day...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Ottoson D,Ekblom A,Hansson P

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen patients whose post-herpetic neuralgia could not be alleviated by conventional methods were treated with cryocautery using a stick of solid carbon dioxide (dry ice) applied directly to the hyperesthetic skin areas of the cutaneous scars. Follow-up evaluation revealed that 5 of 14 subjects maintained excellent...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Suzuki H,Ogawa S,Nakagawa H,Kanayama T,Taj K,Saitoh H,Ohshima Y

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultures differ as to typical linguistic reports and classifications of pain. In some languages upwards of a dozen specific pain terms are in common use, each indicating a particular pain experience. In other languages a single inclusive term is the norm, perhaps with optional qualifiers added to make desired distinct...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Diller A

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of cold stress were studied on rats with unilaterally sectioned sciatic nerves. Behaviors suggestive of pain occurred in a number of these animals. These behaviors vanished when removing the rats from the stressful environment. Some severely painful syndromes in man might in part be due to mechanisms simil...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Wiesenfeld Z,Hallin RG

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An indentical questionnaire are administered separately to 100 chronic pain patients and a close family member of each. The majority of patients and relatives agreed on the answers to these questions about the pain problem. Highest congruency between patient and relative was associated with cases in which there were m...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Swanson DW,Maruta T

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty patients with chronic low back pain received 12 lumbar sympathetic injections, in a series of 6 with bupivacaine and a series of 6 with saline. Changes in subjective pain intensity, EMG from paravertebral muscles, joint ranges of mobility, and daily activity levels were measured at multiple intervals throughout...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Brena SF,Wolf SL,Chapman SL,Hammonds WD

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychologic assessment and treatment of the family of the chronic pain patient has been thought to be of benefit in the outcome of pain therapy. The present study was designed to determine the presence of psychologic symptoms in the spouses of pain patients and the relationship of distress levels between the marital p...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Shanfield SB,Heiman EM,Cope N,Jones JR

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental C-fiber pain caused by radiant heat was applied to the skin area supplied by the left sural nerve of 20 subjects. Percutaneous electrical stimulation (PNS) was performed on the left sural nerve, the left superficial peroneal nerve and the right superficial radial nerve. Stimulation frequencies were: 3, 50...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Hiedl P,Struppler A,Gessler M

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phantom urinary phenomena are a relatively rare disease entity. Literature search has revealed only one case following cystectomy, seven cases following spinal cord injury and several other cases in hemodialysis patients. This report presents a case of painful phantom bladder following cystectomy for chronic kidney an...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Brena SF,Sammons EE

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermal sensitivity of the eyelid and cornea was compared using an automated apparatus to produce stimulus pulses of known magnitude and duration over the range 33--45 degrees C. Subjects reported only temperature sensation when the skin of the upper eyelid was tested; however, corneal stimulation in the same subj...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Beuerman RW,Tanelian DL

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TNS) was used on 20 patients with severe wrist pain due to rheumatoid arthritis. Three different stimulation frequencies were used: high 70 Hz stimulation (70 TNS), low frequency 3 Hz stimulation (3 TNS) and brief trains of stimuli with an internal frequency of 70 Hz and wi...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Mannheimer C,Carlsson CA

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cybernetic model of analgesia is a simple servo-loop: altered sensory input--complaints--medication--temporary restoration of acceptable processing of the sensory input--return of altered sensations. Under ordinary clinical circumstances the functioning of this mechanism is masked by "noise" generated by the inter...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Keeri-Szanto M

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beneficial effects have been observed in University of Washington Pain Clinic patients treated with tricyclic antidepressants, but such effects occur much earlier than predicted mood elevation. A laboratory investigation of pain perception was employed to test the hypothesis that doxepin, a tricyclic antidepressant, h...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Chapman RC,Butler SH

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intramedullary or subarachnoid injections of alumina cream were made in the lumbar region of 38 adult cats. The animals were observed for 3 to 12 months and then subjected to acute neurophysiologic and histologic analysis. Neuronal hyperactivity in the dorsal horns was reliably produced by either subarachnoid or intra...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Loeser JD,Peirce KR

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with chronic pain in one limb, who experienced pain reduction with transcutaneous neurostimulation, were examined for sensory perception in that limb before and during electrical analgesia. Contralateral limbs and normal subjects served as controls. Sensory stimuli were quantified, a range of stimuli were pre...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Callaghan M,Sternbach RA,Nyquist JK,Timmermans G

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 37 patients with chronic pain was investigated with regard to neurologic and psychiatric variables. Twenty of the patients were classified as having mainly organic (= somatogenic) pain syndromes while 17 patients were rather suffering from psychogenic pain syndromes. Samples of lumbar cerebrospinal fluid (...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Almay BGL,Johansson F,Von Knorring L,Terenius L,Wahlstrom A

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of two experiments show that ratio scales of sensory and affective verbal pain descriptors are valid, reliable and objective. In the first experiment, 16 subjects rated 15 sensory and 15 affective verbal pain descriptors by numerical magnitude estimation and by cross-modality matching to handgrip force. Ra...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Gracely RH,McGrath P,Dubner R

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a consecutive series of 227 psychiatric hospital admissions, data were recorded in respect of the complaint of pain. Eighty-six (38%) had pain. Fourty-four (19%) mentioned it spontaneously and 49 (22%) had no relevant physical cause. Women were affected more often than men (P less than 0.01) and tended to complain ...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Delaplaine R,Ifabumuyi OI,Merskey H,Zarfas J

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bipolar intrapulpal stimulation was applied to human teeth using the same procedure as in animal experiments. The effects of variation of stimulus parameters on the quality of sensation were studied. A prepain sensation exists which cannot be explained by diffusion of the stimulus to periodontal tissues. When the inte...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Azerad J,Woda A

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00