Ten healthy volunteers were submitted to an experimental pain test performed by electrical stimulation of one tooth, before and after 20 min high-frequency (300 Hz) electrical stimulation, for the purpose of relieving pain, delivered to the lip or to three other somatotopically non related areas. The stimulation of the lip only showed a statistically significant analgesic action. The effect was remarkable (31% of total pain relief) and of the same order of magnitude at any intensity level of the tooth stimulation, the threshold being affected too. It is concluded that a central inhibitory mechanism, activated by large afferents input, should subserve this kind of analgetic procedure.

[Effect of high-frequency percutaneous stimulation on experimental pain] / Cruccu, Giorgio; M., Fornarelli; G., Fucito; Inghilleri, Maurizio; M., Visconti. - In: BOLLETTINO DELLA SOCIETA' ITALIANA DI BIOLOGIA SPERIMENTALE. - ISSN 0037-8771. - 58:12(1982), pp. 761-765.

[Effect of high-frequency percutaneous stimulation on experimental pain].

CRUCCU, Giorgio;INGHILLERI, Maurizio;
1982

Abstract

Ten healthy volunteers were submitted to an experimental pain test performed by electrical stimulation of one tooth, before and after 20 min high-frequency (300 Hz) electrical stimulation, for the purpose of relieving pain, delivered to the lip or to three other somatotopically non related areas. The stimulation of the lip only showed a statistically significant analgesic action. The effect was remarkable (31% of total pain relief) and of the same order of magnitude at any intensity level of the tooth stimulation, the threshold being affected too. It is concluded that a central inhibitory mechanism, activated by large afferents input, should subserve this kind of analgetic procedure.
1982
adult; analgesia; electric stimulation therapy; humans; methods; pain; physiopathology
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[Effect of high-frequency percutaneous stimulation on experimental pain] / Cruccu, Giorgio; M., Fornarelli; G., Fucito; Inghilleri, Maurizio; M., Visconti. - In: BOLLETTINO DELLA SOCIETA' ITALIANA DI BIOLOGIA SPERIMENTALE. - ISSN 0037-8771. - 58:12(1982), pp. 761-765.
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