Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Methodological Considerations for the Temporal Summation of Second Pain

Temporal summation of second pain (TSSP) is a psychophysical indication of a central pain encoding mechanism, potentially enhanced in pathological pain conditions. Low frequency repetitive stimulation of unmyelinated (C) nociceptors results in a progressive increase of pain intensity when thermal stimulation intensity remains constant. However, when using different methods of nociceptive delivery to the skin, both regularity and rate of pain enhancement with repetition varies between experiments.

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