Chronic Pain
Investigators at University Hospital target chronic pain
Published in Pain and Central Nervous System Week, December 20th, 2010
2010 DEC 20 -- Fresh data on chronic pain are presented in the report 'Generalized expansion of nociceptive reflex receptive fields in chronic pain patients.' "Widespread central hypersensitivity is present in chronic pain and contributes to pain and disability. According to animal studies, expansion of receptive fields of spinal cord neurons is involved in central hypersensitivity," researchers in Bern, Switzerland report.
"We recently developed a method to quantify nociceptive receptive fields in humans using spinal withdrawal reflexes. Here we hypothesized that patients with chronic pelvic pain display enlarged reflex receptive fields. Secondary...
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