Clinically significant acute pain disturbs motor cortex intracortical inhibition and facilitation in orthopedic trauma patients: A TMS study
Marianne Jodoin, Dominique M. Rouleau, Audrey Bellemare, Catherine Provost, Camille Larson-Dupuis, Émilie Sandman, G. Yves Laflamme, Benoit Benoit, Stéphane Leduc, Martine Levesque, Nadia Gosselin, Louis De Beaumont
This study examines M1 cortical excitability in orthopedic trauma patients with acute pain, finding reduced intracortical inhibition and facilitation in those with moderate to severe pain.
PLoS ONE · Mar 20, 2020Peer-reviewedNeuroscience