22 research outputs found
Comparison of the cognitive performance of elderly caregivers with and without chronic pain
Benefits of resistance exercise in lean women with fibromyalgia: involvement of IGF-1 and leptin
The Chinese Medicine Wu-Tou Decoction Relieves Neuropathic Pain by Inhibiting Hippocampal Microglia Activation
The mGluR5 Antagonist Fenobam Induces Analgesic Conditioned Place Preference in Mice with Spared Nerve Injury
Neuroanatomical Signatures of Acute and Chronic Orofacial Pain
The more fully we understand chronic pain, the more adept we as providers will be able to deliver effective care to the patient with TMD. There have been significant advances in our current understanding of the neuroanatomical and neurochemical elements that underlie chronic pain, but the picture of how it is established and maintained is by no means complete. This chapter presents a short synopsis of our current appreciation of pain in general as well as a discussion of the research that contributes to the basis of our contemporary knowledge and theories that help us understand TMD-associated chronic pain