Sentences with phrase «for hyperalgesia»

Although obtained in rodents, the findings suggest that EA is a potential therapy for hyperalgesia in humans.

The evidence for hyperalgesia is clearest in people taking extreme doses — for instance, in opioid abusers or terminal cancer patients managing severe pain.

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For some, this lack of evidence makes research into hyperalgesia look like a dead end.

Researchers already knew that even without opioids, some people with chronic pain from nerve damage or fibromyalgia, for example, experience hyperalgesia when normal pain signaling gets reinforced and amplified over time.

A few researchers, like Mao, think hyperalgesia is an underappreciated puzzle piece in the opioid epidemic — a force that can pile on pain, drive up doses, and make it harder for chronic users to come off their drugs.

Researchers trained male rats to drink alcohol for eight weeks, after which they discontinued the alcohol supply, which led to withdrawal symptoms, including hyperalgesia.

There are already well established databases within the consortium, the London Pain Database (LPD) and QUAST (DFNS, Germany): The LPD is used for datamining of functional genomics data to help identify individual genes and functional networks associated with chronic pain, QUAST on the other hand collects questionnaire data, clinical and neurophysiological findings and calculates valid clusters of phenotypes with different interaction patterns of sensory loss with and without different types of peripheral and central hyperalgesia based on QST (quantitative sensory testing) data.