Somatosensory function in patients with and without pain after traumatic peripheral nerve injury

ÅH Landerholm, AG Ekblom, PT Hansson - European Journal of Pain, 2010 - Elsevier
… The aim of this study was to examine the function of somatosensory systems in patients with
traumatic peripheral nerve injury with and without pain probing for common denominators of …

Reorganization of mammalian somatosensory cortex following peripheral nerve injury

MM Merzenich, JH Kaas - Trends in Neurosciences, 1982 - cell.com
… Thus, somatosensory cortical fields may be subject to alterations ,elated to sensory use. …
An important question raised by the reorganization process is: how can proper function be …

Characterization of chronic pain and somatosensory function in spinal cord injury subjects

R Defrin, A Ohry, N Blumen, G Urca - Pain, 2001 - Elsevier
injuries without suffering from chronic pain. Indeed, in the present study spinothalamic function
… behavioral consequences are highly dependent on the method of nerve injury. This was …

Responsiveness of the somatosensory system after nerve injury and amputation in the human hand

W Schady, S Braune, S Watson… - Annals of Neurology …, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
… Distortion of the fingertip representations in the CNS may add to the impairment of tactile
discriminative functions following nerve injury and repair, but our results suggest that there is …

… of pain reduction by transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) on somatosensory functions in patients with painful traumatic peripheral partial nerve injury

G Engholm, AS Leffler - European Journal of Pain, 2010 - Elsevier
… procedures were used to investigate somatosensory functions with the primary aim to link
alterations of the ongoing pain intensity to changes of sensory functions. The reason for this …

Guidelines and recommendations for assessment of somatosensory function in oro‐facial pain conditions–a taskforce report

P Svensson, L Baad‐Hansen, M Pigg… - Journal of oral …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… For example, after injury to the somatosensory system, pain … (gain in function), injury to
somatosensory pathways may … trigeminal nerve, positive signs (gain in somatosensory function) …

Hand function after nerve repair

G Lundborg, B Rosén - Acta physiologica, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… A nerve injury in the upper extremity is followed by profound functional reorganizational
changes in the somatosensory … A major component in rehabilitation after nerve injury should …

Traumatic cervical spinal cord injury: relation between somatosensory evoked potentials, neurological deficit, and hand function

A Curt, V Dietz - Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, 1996 - Elsevier
Objective: Median and ulnar somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) … injury (SCI) in relation
to the outcome of hand function. Design: Cohort analytical study. Setting: Spinal cord injury

Rapid synaptic remodeling in the adult somatosensory cortex following peripheral nerve injury and its association with neuropathic pain

SK Kim, J Nabekura - Journal of Neuroscience, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
… cortex following peripheral nerve injury and its association with … 2) suggest that nerve
injury-specific remodeling of cortical … for the purpose of ordinary somatosensory functions, would …

Changes in sensation after nerve injury or amputation: the role of central factors.

S Braune, W Schady - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & …, 1993 - jnnp.bmj.com
somatosensoryfunction between tip and base of the fingers. Another finding that cannot
be explained on a peripheral basis is the steeper slope of the psychophysical intensity function