Veel voorkomende blessures die sport en bewegen van de mens vaak in de weg staan zijn de peesblessures. Voorbeelden van de meest voorkomende peesblessures zijn onder andere patella tendinopathie oftewel de jumpers knee (JK), achilles tendinopathie (AT) en ECRB tendinopathie (extensor carpi radialis brevis, …

Study Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Background Quantitative mechanical sensory testing (QST) assesses sensory functioning and detects functional changes in (central) nociceptive processing. In the current low back pain literature it has been hypothesized that these functional changes …

A substantial proportion of patients with burn injury develop chronic itch, which can severely affect their quality of life. As found in research on chronic pain, different psychophysiological processes may also play a role in chronic itch, of which central sensitization, conditioned modulation, and …

BACKGROUND: Current evidence shows that manual therapy elicits analgesic effect in different populations (healthy, pain inflicted and patients with musculoskeletal pain) when carried out at the spinal column, although the clinical significance of these effects remains unclear. Also the analgesic effects …