Central Sensitization

Acupuncture-Analgesia-Mediated Alleviation of Central Sensitization

Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2019 Mar 7;2019:6173412. doi: 10.1155/2019/6173412. eCollection 2019. Lai HC Abstract Pain can trigger central amplification called central sensitization, which ultimately results in hyperalgesia and/or allodynia. Many reports have showed acupuncture has an analgesic effect. We searched the related article on PubMed database and Cochrane database to discover central sensitization pathway […]

Central sensitization: Implications for the diagnosis and treatment of pain – Full Text

Pain. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2012 Mar 1. Published in final edited form as: Pain. 2011 Mar; 152(3 Suppl): S2–15. Published online 2010 Oct 18. doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2010.09.030 PMCID: PMC3268359 NIHMSID: NIHMS249521 PMID: 20961685 Clifford J Woolf Abstract Nociceptor inputs can trigger a prolonged but reversible increase in the excitability and synaptic efficacy of neurons […]