Experimental and clinical neck pain: Studies on training-induced neuroplasticity PhD dissertation
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Acknowledgements I wish to express my sincere gratitude and thanks to all the people and participants who have assisted me during my PhD project. I am sincerely grateful to my principal supervisor Troels Staehelin Jensen for giving me the opportunity to work on this thesis at the Danish Pain Research Center and for his exceptional supervision. Also, a deep-felt thanks to my co-supervisors Peter Svensson, Helge Kasch and Anders Fuglsang-Frederiksen for their very constructive advice, enthusiasm and help in solving theoretical and experimental matters. A special thanks to Helle Obenhausen Andersen for her excellent assistance in preparing the manuscripts and this thesis and to Lars Henrik Soevsoe from the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology for helping me with technical support. I appreciate the indispensable scientific and social time spent with my inspiring colleagues at the Danish thanks to my dearest wife Birgitte and my children Ann and Asger for their support and constant reminding of the truly important things in life. Specific neck training induces sustained corticomotor hyperexcitability as assessed by motor evoked potentials.
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