Pain Management in Disorders of the Hand

Autor: Carmel Martin, Richard Kennedy, Jeremy N. Cashman
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Disorders of the Hand ISBN: 9781447165538
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-6554-5_20
Popis: The ability of an individual’s somatosensory system to detect noxious and potentially tissue damaging stimuli is an important protective mechanism. The multiple interrelated peripheral and central processes that detect these noxious stimuli are defined as nociception. But it is the interpretation of those multiple processes within the central nervous system (CNS) that results in the sensation of pain. Pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) as
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