BOOK REVIEWS: Chronic Pain: Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy: Prevention and Management.
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From the Book: Chronic Pain: Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Prevention and Management CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida
Lewis433 demonstrated that stimulation of "myofacial" structures, i.e., muscle, periosteum, and ligaments, cause pain quite similar to visceral pain. Lewis433 stimulated referred pain in 94% of experimental injection of 6% normal saline into deep skeletal structures of 28 normal volunteers. The pattern of referred pain was quite consistent, although not confined to the injected dermatomal segment.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.57.3.398