Painful hand and moving finger treated by wearing a glove.
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.
Wider
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Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Kuntzer
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T
Olivier
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P
Debatisse
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D
Nançoz
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R
Maeder
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P
Bogousslavsky
J
J
Vingerhoets
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F
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