ABNORMAL MICROVASCULAR RESPONSES IN LATERAL EPICONDYLITIS
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- 1 December 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Rheumatology
- Vol. 33 (12) , 1166-1168
- https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/33.12.1166
Abstract
The laser Doppler flowmeter, an instrument highly sensitive to changes in blood flow velocity in the dermal microvascular bed, was used to examine a sympathetic vasomotor response (SVR) in 40 patients with lateral epicondylitis. There was a significant association between the absence of a normal SVR in the skin overlying the affected enthesis compared with the unaffected contralateral epicondyle (P<0.01). These results suggest that local dysfunction of the sympathetic nervous system may be associated with the pathogenesis of anatomically discrete pain in the enthesopathy of epicondylitis.Keywords
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