Vibratory stimulation increase the electro-cutaneous sensory detection and pain thresholds in women but not in men

BACKGROUND: Vibratory stimulation is a potential method for the treatment of pain. METHODS: The effect of vibration on the forearm on detection (DT) and pain thresholds (PT) induced by electro-cutaneous stimulation were investigated in healthy male and female volunteers. RESULTS: Women have lower ba...

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Autores principales: Dahlin, Lisbeth, Lund, Irene, Lundeberg, Thomas, Molander, Carl
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1481532/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16719906
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-6-20
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author Dahlin, Lisbeth
Lund, Irene
Lundeberg, Thomas
Molander, Carl
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Lund, Irene
Lundeberg, Thomas
Molander, Carl
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description BACKGROUND: Vibratory stimulation is a potential method for the treatment of pain. METHODS: The effect of vibration on the forearm on detection (DT) and pain thresholds (PT) induced by electro-cutaneous stimulation were investigated in healthy male and female volunteers. RESULTS: Women have lower baseline detection and pain thresholds as compared to men. Furthermore, women but not men report increased detection and pain thresholds after vibratory stimulation. CONCLUSION: Our findings indicate the potential usefulness of vibratory stimulation for pain treatment, and that gender differences should be considered in future evaluation of the method.
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spelling pubmed-14815322006-06-22 Vibratory stimulation increase the electro-cutaneous sensory detection and pain thresholds in women but not in men Dahlin, Lisbeth Lund, Irene Lundeberg, Thomas Molander, Carl BMC Complement Altern Med Research Article BACKGROUND: Vibratory stimulation is a potential method for the treatment of pain. METHODS: The effect of vibration on the forearm on detection (DT) and pain thresholds (PT) induced by electro-cutaneous stimulation were investigated in healthy male and female volunteers. RESULTS: Women have lower baseline detection and pain thresholds as compared to men. Furthermore, women but not men report increased detection and pain thresholds after vibratory stimulation. CONCLUSION: Our findings indicate the potential usefulness of vibratory stimulation for pain treatment, and that gender differences should be considered in future evaluation of the method. BioMed Central 2006-05-23 /pmc/articles/PMC1481532/ /pubmed/16719906 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-6-20 Text en Copyright © 2006 Dahlin et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Dahlin, Lisbeth
Lund, Irene
Lundeberg, Thomas
Molander, Carl
Vibratory stimulation increase the electro-cutaneous sensory detection and pain thresholds in women but not in men
title Vibratory stimulation increase the electro-cutaneous sensory detection and pain thresholds in women but not in men
title_full Vibratory stimulation increase the electro-cutaneous sensory detection and pain thresholds in women but not in men
title_fullStr Vibratory stimulation increase the electro-cutaneous sensory detection and pain thresholds in women but not in men
title_full_unstemmed Vibratory stimulation increase the electro-cutaneous sensory detection and pain thresholds in women but not in men
title_short Vibratory stimulation increase the electro-cutaneous sensory detection and pain thresholds in women but not in men
title_sort vibratory stimulation increase the electro-cutaneous sensory detection and pain thresholds in women but not in men
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1481532/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16719906
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-6-20
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