title: Painful hand and moving finger treated by wearing a glove.
abstract: The authors report a patient with unilateral painful hand and moving finger in whom tactile stimulation interrupted both the movement and the pain. This effect suggests a gating mechanism at a segmental level. The difference between afferent and efferent pathway levels and the delay of several months between trauma and occurrence of symptoms support a central mechanism, most probably involving sensorimotor reorganization at a segmental level.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wider
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kuntzer
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Olivier
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Debatisse
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nançoz
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Maeder
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bogousslavsky
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vingerhoets
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005385:Fingers; D017575:Gloves, Protective; D006225:Hand; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology*; D010146:Pain / Q000503:physiopathology; D059408:Pain Management; D010147:Pain Measurement