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Pain sensitivity and tactile spatial acuity are altered in healthy musicians as in chronic pain patients

Extensive training of repetitive and highly skilled movements, as it occurs in professional classical musicians, may lead to changes in tactile sensitivity and corresponding cortical reorganization of somatosensory cortices. It is also known that professional musicians frequently experience musculos...

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Autores principales: Zamorano, Anna M., Riquelme, Inmaculada, Kleber, Boris, Altenmüller, Eckart, Hatem, Samar M., Montoya, Pedro
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4285087/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25610384
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.01016
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author Zamorano, Anna M.
Riquelme, Inmaculada
Kleber, Boris
Altenmüller, Eckart
Hatem, Samar M.
Montoya, Pedro
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Riquelme, Inmaculada
Kleber, Boris
Altenmüller, Eckart
Hatem, Samar M.
Montoya, Pedro
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description Extensive training of repetitive and highly skilled movements, as it occurs in professional classical musicians, may lead to changes in tactile sensitivity and corresponding cortical reorganization of somatosensory cortices. It is also known that professional musicians frequently experience musculoskeletal pain and pain-related symptoms during their careers. The present study aimed at understanding the complex interaction between chronic pain and music training with respect to somatosensory processing. For this purpose, tactile thresholds (mechanical detection, grating orientation, two-point discrimination) and subjective ratings to thermal and pressure pain stimuli were assessed in 17 professional musicians with chronic pain, 30 pain-free musicians, 20 non-musicians with chronic pain, and 18 pain-free non-musicians. We found that pain-free musicians displayed greater touch sensitivity (i.e., lower mechanical detection thresholds), lower tactile spatial acuity (i.e., higher grating orientation thresholds) and increased pain sensitivity to pressure and heat compared to pain-free non-musicians. Moreover, we also found that musicians and non-musicians with chronic pain presented lower tactile spatial acuity and increased pain sensitivity to pressure and heat compared to pain-free non-musicians. The significant increment of pain sensitivity together with decreased spatial discrimination in pain-free musicians and the similarity of results found in chronic pain patients, suggests that the extensive training of repetitive and highly skilled movements in classical musicians could be considered as a risk factor for developing chronic pain, probably due to use-dependent plastic changes elicited in somatosensory pathways.
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spelling pubmed-42850872015-01-21 Pain sensitivity and tactile spatial acuity are altered in healthy musicians as in chronic pain patients Zamorano, Anna M. Riquelme, Inmaculada Kleber, Boris Altenmüller, Eckart Hatem, Samar M. Montoya, Pedro Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience Extensive training of repetitive and highly skilled movements, as it occurs in professional classical musicians, may lead to changes in tactile sensitivity and corresponding cortical reorganization of somatosensory cortices. It is also known that professional musicians frequently experience musculoskeletal pain and pain-related symptoms during their careers. The present study aimed at understanding the complex interaction between chronic pain and music training with respect to somatosensory processing. For this purpose, tactile thresholds (mechanical detection, grating orientation, two-point discrimination) and subjective ratings to thermal and pressure pain stimuli were assessed in 17 professional musicians with chronic pain, 30 pain-free musicians, 20 non-musicians with chronic pain, and 18 pain-free non-musicians. We found that pain-free musicians displayed greater touch sensitivity (i.e., lower mechanical detection thresholds), lower tactile spatial acuity (i.e., higher grating orientation thresholds) and increased pain sensitivity to pressure and heat compared to pain-free non-musicians. Moreover, we also found that musicians and non-musicians with chronic pain presented lower tactile spatial acuity and increased pain sensitivity to pressure and heat compared to pain-free non-musicians. The significant increment of pain sensitivity together with decreased spatial discrimination in pain-free musicians and the similarity of results found in chronic pain patients, suggests that the extensive training of repetitive and highly skilled movements in classical musicians could be considered as a risk factor for developing chronic pain, probably due to use-dependent plastic changes elicited in somatosensory pathways. Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4285087/ /pubmed/25610384 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.01016 Text en Copyright © 2015 Zamorano, Riquelme, Kleber, Altenmüller, Hatem and Montoya. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution and reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Zamorano, Anna M.
Riquelme, Inmaculada
Kleber, Boris
Altenmüller, Eckart
Hatem, Samar M.
Montoya, Pedro
Pain sensitivity and tactile spatial acuity are altered in healthy musicians as in chronic pain patients
title Pain sensitivity and tactile spatial acuity are altered in healthy musicians as in chronic pain patients
title_full Pain sensitivity and tactile spatial acuity are altered in healthy musicians as in chronic pain patients
title_fullStr Pain sensitivity and tactile spatial acuity are altered in healthy musicians as in chronic pain patients
title_full_unstemmed Pain sensitivity and tactile spatial acuity are altered in healthy musicians as in chronic pain patients
title_short Pain sensitivity and tactile spatial acuity are altered in healthy musicians as in chronic pain patients
title_sort pain sensitivity and tactile spatial acuity are altered in healthy musicians as in chronic pain patients
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4285087/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25610384
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.01016
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