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Table 4.2Important pain terms. Various terms are used to describe pain mechanisms (e.g. nociceptive) andcharacteristics (e.g. allodynia) (www.iasp-pain.org)

Figure 4.11Lowered threshold outcomes.Allodynia: pain due to a stimulus that does not normally provoke pain – anunexpected pain response associated with different types of somatosensorystimuli applied to different tissues. A consequence of neural hyperexcitation. Seealso Table 4.2.

Figure 4.11

Lowered threshold outcomes.

Allodynia: pain due to a stimulus that does not normally provoke pain – an

unexpected pain response associated with different types of somatosensory

stimuli applied to different tissues. A consequence of neural hyperexcitation. See

also Table 4.2.

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