Pressure pain thresholds of upper limb peripheral nerve trunks in asymptomatic subjects.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Palpation of peripheral nerve trunks has been advocated as a method of assessing the presence of hyperalgesic nerve tissue as a contributing factor to pain syndromes in musculoskeletal disorders of the upper quadrant. This study investigated, in the first instance, the pressu...
| Publicado en: | Physiotherapy Research International Vol. 5; no. 4; pp. 220 - 230 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2000
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