The relationship of pain, allodynia and thermal sensation in post-herpetic neuralgia

MC Rowbotham, HL Fields - Brain, 1996 - academic.oup.com
… The correlation of allodynia severity with preservation of thermal nociceptive sensory function
in the present study suggests that a similar mechanism may contribute to the allodynia of …

Capsaicin evoked pain and allodynia in post-herpetic neuralgia

KL Petersen, HL Fields, J Brennum, P Sandroni… - Pain, 2000 - Elsevier
… As site D had thermal sensation and epidermal fiber counts comparable to mirror-image
unaffected skin, the results suggest that application of capsaicin sufficiently increased the input …

Post-herpetic neuralgia: the relation of pain complaint, sensory disturbance and skin temperature

MC Rowbotham, HL Fields - Pain, 1989 - Elsevier
… possible components to their PHN pain: continuous, neuralgic, or allodynic. In patients with
… , pain that is present beyond the period of active skin lesions is called post-herpetic neuralgia

Pain and allodynia in postherpetic neuralgia: role of somatic and sympathetic nervous system

T Nurmikko, C Wells, D Bowsher - Acta neurologica …, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
Pain and allodynia returned in concert with the recovery of tactile sensation while thermal
sensationPost-herpetic neuralgia: the relation of pain complaint, sensory disturbance, and …

Somatosensory findings in postherpetic neuralgia.

T Nurmikko, D Bowsher - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & …, 1990 - jnnp.bmj.com
… discrimination), allodynia and skin temperature were assessed … the patient recognising any
thermal sensation, only one repetition … Pain laterality in relation to site of pain and diagnosis. …

Postherpetic neuralgia: are C-nociceptors involved in signalling and maintenance of tactile allodynia?

R Baron, M Saguer - Brain, 1993 - academic.oup.com
postherpetic neuralgia. Rowbotham and Fields (1989) examined patients with and without
tactile allodynia … To answer this question the relationship of peripheral C-fibre function (axon …

Heterogenous patterns of sensory dysfunction in postherpetic neuralgia suggest multiple pathophysiologic mechanisms

M Pappagallo, AL Oaklander… - The Journal of the …, 2000 - pubs.asahq.org
… intact cutaneous thermal sensation and the intensity of ongoing pain or mechanical … We
observed a difference in the relationship between ongoing pain and allodynia induced by …

Pathophysiology of pain in postherpetic neuralgia: a clinical and neurophysiological study

A Truini, F Galeotti, M Haanpaa, R Zucchi, A Albanesi… - Pain, 2008 - Elsevier
… , lancinating pain, and allodynia (ie pain provoked by normally non painful stimulus). Two-thirds
of the patients report mechanical allodynia, and some patients have cold allodynia. …

Analysis of the Risk Factors for Mechanical Allodynia in Herpetic Neuralgia: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study

G Xu, W Gong, S Dong, G Hu, W Tang… - Journal of Pain …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
… Further investigation of the relationship between MA and local symptoms can … relationship
between MA and the various manifestations of locally involved tissues of herpetic neuralgia (…

Cutaneous innervation density in the allodynic form of postherpetic neuralgia

MC Rowbotham, G Yosipovitch, MK Connolly… - Neurobiology of …, 1996 - Elsevier
… use, the relationships between allodynia, thermal sensory function, … 6.5/10), with minimal
loss of thermal sensation (heat pain … ) Topical lidocaine reduces pain in post-herpetic neuralgia. …