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Pain tolerance threshold and pain perception threshold: clinical and experimental studies

par Orloff, Serge
Référence Clinics in Rheumatic Diseases, 5, 3, page (755-773)
Publication Publié, 1979

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Many methods have been used to study pain experimentally. They make use of various noxious stimuli - heat, pressure, ischaemia, electrical discharge, or the injection of chemical pain mediators. They give rise to phasic or tonic pain and enable us to make fully or partially objective assessments of the pain perception threshold or the pain tolerance threshold. From these various methods it is possible to select certain simple and reliable techniques that can be used clinically without inconvenience to patients; such methods answer the question of how efficient one can be in promising a patient or his family relief of his pain.