Reorganization in secondary somatosensory cortex in chronic low back pain patients

S Hotz-Boendermaker, VL Marcar, ML Meier… - Spine, 2016 - journals.lww.com
… Low back pain (LBP) is now the number 1 condition across the world in terms of years living
… Our study has demonstrated maladaptive changes in sensory information processing and …

… in the organization of the secondary somatosensory cortex while processing lumbar proprioception and the relationship with sensorimotor control in low back pain

N Goossens, L Janssens… - … Clinical journal of pain, 2019 - journals.lww.com
… Despite the large amount of resources devoted to low back pain, it … with low back pain have
“nonspecific low back pain” (NSLBP), as a clear structural pathoanatomic cause of their pain

[HTML][HTML] Somatosensory abnormalities for painful and innocuous stimuli at the back and at a site distinct from the region of pain in chronic back pain patients

C Puta, B Schulz, S Schoeler, W Magerl, B Gabriel… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
… the profile of somatosensory changes occurring in CLBP … somatosensory disturbances
for noxious and innocuous stimuli might be important for the therapy of chronic low back pain. …

[HTML][HTML] From acute to persistent low back pain: a longitudinal investigation of somatosensory changes using quantitative sensory testing—an exploratory study

A Marcuzzi, PJ Wrigley, CM Dean, PL Graham… - Pain …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Changes in mechanical pain sensitivity occurring in the subacute stage warrant further … the
role of somatosensory changes in the development of persistent LBP. Pain-related cognitions …

Acute low back pain: Differential somatosensory function and gene expression compared with healthy no-pain controls

AR Starkweather, D Ramesh, DE Lyon… - … journal of pain, 2016 - journals.lww.com
… Given the small sample size, it is beyond the scope of this study to predict definitive
genetic markers of the somatosensory changes that occur in acute LBP. Nonetheless, these …

Early changes in somatosensory function in spinal pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis

A Marcuzzi, CM Dean, PJ Wrigley, JM Hush - Pain, 2015 - journals.lww.com
… detected in early stages of nonspecific low back pain, although evidence about widespread
effects are … of somatosensory changes in the development and maintenance of chronic pain. …

Extensive reorganization of primary somatosensory cortex in chronic back pain patients

H Flor, C Braun, T Elbert, N Birbaumer - Neuroscience letters, 1997 - Elsevier
… primary somatosensory cortex in states of chronic pain was assessed in 10 low back pain
Intracutaneous electric stimuli were applied to the left back and index finger at a standard, a …

[HTML][HTML] Reduced tactile acuity in chronic low back pain is linked with structural neuroplasticity in primary somatosensory cortex and is modulated by acupuncture …

H Kim, I Mawla, J Lee, J Gerber, K Walker, J Kim… - Neuroimage, 2020 - Elsevier
… Thus, S1 neuroplasticity in cLBP is linked with deficits in tactile acuity and, following
acupuncture therapy, may represent early mechanistic changes in somatosensory processing that …

Primary somatosensory cortex in chronic low back pain – a 1H-MRS study

NK Sharma, K McCarson, L Van Dillen… - Journal of pain …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
… can be used to quantify relevant cerebral metabolite changes in chronic pain, and consequently
increase our knowledge of the factors leading from these changes to clinical outcomes. …

Neuroplasticity of sensorimotor control in low back pain

S Brumagne, M Diers, L Danneels, GL Moseley… - journal of orthopaedic & …, 2019 - jospt.org
changes and oxygenation in the somatosensory association area and primary somatosensory
… Reorganization of the somatosensory cortex in low back pain. Average location of the …