• Association of anxiety with intracortical inhibition and descending pain modulation in chronic myofascial pain syndrome 

      Vidor, Liliane Pinto; Torres, Iraci Lucena da Silva; Medeiros, Liciane Fernandes; Sarria, Jairo Alberto Dussán; Dall'Agnol, Letizzia; Deitos, Alícia; Brietzke, Aline Patrícia; Laste, Gabriela; Rozisky, Joanna Ripoll; Fregni, Felipe; Caumo, Wolnei (2014) [Artigo de periódico]
      Background: This study aimed to answer three questions related to chronic myofascial pain syndrome (MPS): 1) Is the motor cortex excitability, as assessed by transcranial magnetic stimulation parameters (TMS), related to ...
    • Corticospinal excitability as a biomarker of myofascial pain syndrome 

      Thibaut, Aurore; Zeng, Dian; Caumo, Wolnei; Jianhua, Liu; Fregni, Felipe (2017) [Artigo de periódico]
      Introduction: Myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) is a common chronic pain disorder that lacks effective diagnostic criteria. To better understand neurophysiological changes in chronic pain, several trials exploring corticospinal ...
    • Motor cortex excitability and BDNF levels in chronic musculoskeletal pain according to structural pathology 

      Caumo, Wolnei; Deitos, Alícia; Carvalho, Sandra; Leite, Jorge; Carvalho, Fabiana; Sarria, Jairo Alberto Dussán; Tarragó, Maria da Graça Lopes; Souza, Andressa de; Torres, Iraci Lucena da Silva; Fregni, Felipe (2016) [Artigo de periódico]
      The central sensitization syndrome (CSS) encompasses disorders with overlapping symptoms in a structural pathology spectrum ranging from persistent nociception [e.g., osteoarthritis (OA)] to an absence of tissue injuries ...
    • The use of dry needling in the treatment of cervical and masticatory myofascial pain 

      Carvalho, Andreia Valle de; Grossmann, Eduardo; Ferreira, Flávia Regina; Januzzi, Eduardo; Fonseca, Roberta Maria Drumond Furtado Bossi (2017) [Artigo de periódico]
      BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Dry needling is an interventionist, minimally invasive technique, used in the treatment of myofascial pain. The objective of this study was to describe the use of dry needling and to perform a ...