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Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
This cluster of papers explores the mechanisms, diagnosis, and treatment of neuropathic pain, focusing on central sensitization, neuroinflammation, glial activation, and the modulation of pain perception. It covers topics such as nociception, neuronal plasticity, chronic pain, hyperalgesia, and diabetic neuropathy.
- Works
- 105,858
- Total citations
- 3,009,780
- Keywords
- Neuropathic PainCentral SensitizationNociceptionNeuroinflammationPain ModulationGlial Activation
Top papers in Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
Ordered by total citation count.
- Pain Mechanisms: A New Theory↗ 10,903
- The capsaicin receptor: a heat-activated ion channel in the pain pathway↗ 9,049OA
- Quantitative assessment of tactile allodynia in the rat paw↗ 7,790
- The McGill Pain Questionnaire: Major properties and scoring methods↗ 6,847
- A peripheral mononeuropathy in rat that produces disorders of pain sensation like those seen in man↗ 5,333
- A new and sensitive method for measuring thermal nociception in cutaneous hyperalgesia↗ 5,145
- Measures of adult pain: Visual Analog Scale for Pain (VAS Pain), Numeric Rating Scale for Pain (NRS Pain), McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ), Short‐Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF‐MPQ), Chronic Pain Grade Scale (CPGS), Short Form‐36 Bodily Pain Scale (SF‐36 BPS), and Measure of Intermittent and Constant Osteoarthritis Pain (ICOAP)↗ 4,775
- Fear-avoidance and its consequences in chronic musculoskeletal pain: a state of the art↗ 4,773OA
- The revised International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain: concepts, challenges, and compromises↗ 4,679OA
- Central sensitization: Implications for the diagnosis and treatment of pain↗ 4,436OA
- MEASUREMENT OF PAIN↗ 4,343
- Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (DC/TMD) for Clinical and Research Applications: Recommendations of the International RDC/TMD Consortium Network* and Orofacial Pain Special Interest Group†↗ 4,280OA
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