Pain Research and Management (Jan 2014)

Impaired Modulation of Pain in Patients with Postherpetic Neuralgia

  • Gisèle Pickering,
  • Bruno Pereira,
  • Elodie Dufour,
  • Sylvie Soule,
  • Claude Dubray

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/507947
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 1
pp. e19 – e23

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: The efficiency of inhibitory pain descending pathways (evaluated using conditioned pain modulation [CPM]) has not been studied in postherpetic neuralgia (PHN).