Relationships between the intensity and duration of Peltier heat stimulation and pain magnitude.
Relationships between the intensity and duration of Peltier heat stimulation and pain magnitude.
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10.1007/s00221-012-3375-2
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2013-03
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2
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Riley, Joseph L., III
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Vierck, Charles J.;Mauderli, Andre P.;Riley, Joseph L., III
Ramp-and-hold heat stimulation with a Peltier thermode is a standard procedure for quantitative sensory testing of human pain sensitivity. Because myelinated and unmyelinated nociceptive afferents respond preferentially to changing and steady temperatures, respectively, ramp-and-hold heat stimulation could assess processing of input from A-delta nociceptors early and C nociceptors late during prolonged thermal stimulation. In order to evaluate the progression from dynamic change to a steady temperature during prolonged Peltier stimulation, recordings of temperatures at the probe-skin interface were obtained. First, recordings of temperature during contact-and-hold stimulation (solenoid powered delivery of a preheated thermode to the skin) provided an evaluation of heat dissipation from the beginning of stimulation, uncontaminated by ramping. The heat sink effect lasted up to 8 sec. and accounted in part for substantial increases in pain intensity as a combined function of durations from 1–16 sec. and stimulus intensities from 43°C to 59°. Recordings during longer periods of stimulation showed that Peltier stimulation generated feedback oscillations in temperature for up to 75 sec that were tracked by subjects’ continuous ratings of pain. During 120 sec. trials, sensitization of pain was observed over 45 seconds after the oscillations subsided. In contrast, sensitization was not observed during 130.5 sec. of stimulation with alternately increasing and decreasing temperatures that maintained a target eVAS rating of 35. Thus, long duration stimulation can be utilized to evaluate sensitization, presumably of C nociception, when not disrupted by oscillations inherent to feedback control of Peltier stimulation.
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