Chronic pain is a leading cause of disability globally and associated with enormous health-
care costs. The discrepancy between the extent of tissue damage and the magnitude of …

In recent years, several published articles have shown that quantitative sensory testing
(QST) and pressure pain threshold (PPT) are useful in the analysis of neck/shoulder and low …

Altered pronociceptive and antinociceptive mechanisms are often implicated in painful
conditions and have been increasingly studied over the past decade. For some painful …

Chronic pain affects more than 50 million Americans. Treatments remain inadequate, in
large part, because the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the development of …

Background There is tentative evidence to support the analgesic effect of transcranial direct
current stimulation (tDCS) in fibromyalgia (FM), with large variability in the effect size (ES) …

In recent years haptics has received considerable attention from the field of Human-
Computer Interactions (HCI) for its potential to provide more tangible and immersive …

Background Research that has examined the effects of cervical spine mobilization on
hypoesthesia and hypersensitivity characteristics in patients with cervical radiculopathy is …

Large variability in the individual response to even the most-efficacious pain treatments is
observed clinically, which has led to calls for a more personalized, tailored approach to …

Objective Assessing mechanical pain thresholds from trigeminal, cervical, and distal pain‐
free areas during the four phases of a migraine cycle in patients with episodic migraine …

Persistent postsurgical pain (PPSP) is a common complication of surgery that significantly
affects quality of life. A better understanding of which patients are likely to develop PPSP …