Index to Chiropractic Literature
Index to Chiropractic Literature
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URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=18328938
Journal J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2008 Feb;31(2):127-129
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Abstract/Notes OBJECTIVE: This study investigates if patients with intermittent low back pain (LBP) have a permanently increased pain perception between attacks.

METHODS: A case-controlled study was performed in a university laboratory. Sixteen patients with intermittent LBP in a pain-free phase were recruited from 3 chiropractic practices. These 16 patients were compared with an age- and sex-matched symptom-free control group, who had never had persistent pain syndromes, by applying a standardized algometer stimulus to 8 points on the body and registering the subjects' perceived pain on a 100-mm visual analog pain scale.

RESULTS: No differences in pain perception were found between the 2 groups.

CONCLUSION: Patients with intermittent LBP do not seem to have an altered pain perception between attacks, with the possible exception of facilitation on a local segmental spinal cord level.

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