Pain mechanisms and their disorders
Open Access
- 1 March 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Medical Bulletin
- Vol. 65 (1) , 83-93
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bmb/65.1.83
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to summarise how functional imaging techniques have changed our understanding of normal and abnormal pain mechanisms, how they inform a change in clinical practice and to speculate on possible future clinical uses.Keywords
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