Assessment of pain perception and pressure threshold for pain changes during the premenstrual phase of the menstrual cycle

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Marie Cullen
2009 ◽  
Vol 106 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie K. Hoeger Bement ◽  
Rebecca L. Rasiarmos ◽  
John M. DiCapo ◽  
Audrey Lewis ◽  
Manda L. Keller ◽  
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Cephalalgia ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Bono ◽  
F Antonaci ◽  
G Sandrini ◽  
E Pucci ◽  
G Nappi ◽  
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Pain perception threshold (PFT) in the head was assessed with a pressure algometer in 58 cluster headache (CH) patients (52M, 6F; 41 episodic and 17 chronic). Fourteen patients in cluster period were retested in remission. Thresholds were assessed at 10 symmetrical points on each side of the head and at the deltoid. Compared with controls ( n = 80), CH patients had lower PPT in the head and in the deltoid. PPT was lower on the symptomatic side than on the non-symptomatic side in patients with episodic CH during a cluster period ( p<0.001) and in patients with chronic CH ( p<0.05). This pattern was more evident during a cluster period than during remission ( p<0.05). A reduced PPT did not correlate with illness duration and pain side. The lowest PPT mean values were found at the anterior and intermediate levels of the temporal muscle on the symptomatic side. These results imply a central mechanism underlying the pathogenesis of CH.


Pain Practice ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alba Piroli ◽  
Antonella Mattei ◽  
Gaspare Carta ◽  
Angela D'Alfonso ◽  
Patrizia Palermo ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 689-691
Author(s):  
Jordan V. Wang ◽  
Georgette Hattier ◽  
Nikita Jhawar ◽  
Natasha Mesinkovska ◽  
Christopher B. Zachary ◽  
...  

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 610-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Soderberg ◽  
Inger Sundstrom Poromaa ◽  
Sigrid Nyberg ◽  
Torbjorn Backstrom ◽  
Erik Nordh

1997 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. 271
Author(s):  
K. F. Koltyn ◽  
E. A. Dannecker ◽  
J. A. Landis

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 2411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gemma Victoria Espí-López ◽  
Anna Arnal-Gómez ◽  
Alba Cuerda del Pino ◽  
José Benavent-Corai ◽  
Pilar Serra-Añó ◽  
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Background: Isolated manual therapy techniques (MT) have shown beneficial effects in patients with temporomandibular disorders (TMD) but the effect of the combination of such techniques, together with the well-stablished splint therapy (ST) remains to be elucidated. Objective: This study was conducted to ascertain whether a combined program of MT techniques, including intraoral treatment, plus traditional ST improves pain and clinical dysfunction in subjects with TMD. Methods: A preliminary trial was conducted. 16 participants were assigned to either the MT plus ST-Experimental Group (EG, n = 8) or the ST alone—Control Group (CG, n = 8). Forty-five minute sessions of combined MT techniques were performed, once a week for four weeks. Three evaluations were conducted: baseline, post-treatment, and one-month follow-up. Outcome measures were pain perception, pain pressure threshold (PPT), TMD dysfunction, and perception of change after treatment. Results: EG showed significant reduction on pain, higher PPT, significant improvement of dysfunction and significantly positive perception of change after treatment (p < 0.05 all). Additionally, such positive effects were maintained at follow-up with a high treatment effect (R2 explaining 26.6–33.2% of all variables). Conclusion: MT plus ST showed reduction on perceived pain (3 points decrease), higher PPT (of at least 1.0 kg/cm2), improvement of disability caused by pain (4.4 points decrease), and positive perception of change (EG: 50% felt “much improvement”), compared to ST alone.


2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 400-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Tommaso

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-14
Author(s):  
Florica SANDRU ◽  
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Mihai Cristian DUMITRASCU ◽  
Eugenia PETROVA ◽  
Adina GHEMIGIAN ◽  
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Premenstrual syndrome (PMS), including the severe subtype premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), DSM-5 category, represents a challenging combination of hormonal, environmental and neuroendocrine dysfunctions with menstrual cycle-related pattern. Controversies around the role of daily stress and associated anomalies of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis are related to the fact that stress is all the time, not just a fluctuating element. This is a narrative review on PMS/PMDD and cortisol profile. 46 articles are cited (between 2009 and 2020). PMD/PMDD underlines multiple imbalances and anomalies of the cortisol levels or its secretory pattern may be a few of them, despite the fact that multiple controversies are still present and most of studies are of limited statistical power. Women with PMS may have higher levels of cortisol in relationship to stress independently of the cycle phase, also a delay of CAR (cortisol awakening response) peak and a delayed cortisol slope during day time. It does not seem that CAR pattern is related to the phases of menstrual cycle. CAR anomalies may be associated with pain perception disturbances in PMS females. The most modern area of interest is related to allopregnanolone, a progesterone metabolite with neuroactive profile. The diurnal serum baseline cortisol and the values of cortisol after dexamethasone suppression test may be similar between patients with PMS and without, but the females with PMS that have higher allopregnanolone associate blunted values of cortisol during the night versus control (without PMS) and versus women with low allopregnanolone levels, thus proving a suboptimal response to stress. Allopregnanolone modules GABA receptors on a paradoxical manner inducing anxiety and irritability during luteal phase on women with a specific predisposal configuration of GABA receptor as those confirmed with PMDD. Overall, PMS/PMDD impairs the quality of life, thus the more we understand about its pathogeny, the easier it gets to control it.


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