Tactile acuity and lumbopelvic motor control in patients with back pain and healthy controlsH Luomajoki
Institute of Physiotherapy, Department of Health, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland
Br J Sports Med 45:437-40. 2011
..We investigated whether tactile acuity, a clear clinical signature of primary sensory cortex organisation, relates to lumbopelvic control in people with back pain...
- Spatially defined modulation of skin temperature and hand ownership of both hands in patients with unilateral complex regional pain syndrome
G Lorimer Moseley
Sansom Institute for Health Research, University of South Australia, GPO Box 2471, Adelaide 5001, Australia
Brain 135:3676-86. 2012
..These results show that complex regional pain syndrome involves more complex neurological dysfunction than has previously been considered...
Are children who play a sport or a musical instrument better at motor imagery than children who do not?Abhishikta Dey
Sansom Institute for Health Research, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Br J Sports Med 46:923-6. 2012
..The authors tested this prediction...
- Targeting cortical representations in the treatment of chronic pain: a review
G Lorimer Moseley
University of South Australia and Neuroscience Research Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Neurorehabil Neural Repair 26:646-52. 2012
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- Spatially defined disruption of motor imagery performance in people with osteoarthritis
Tasha R Stanton
Sansom Institute for Health Research, University of South Australia, GPO Box 2471, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia
Rheumatology (Oxford) 51:1455-64. 2012
..To determine whether motor imagery performance is disrupted in patients with painful knee OA and if this disruption is specific to the location of the pain...
- Neglect-like tactile dysfunction in chronic back pain
G Lorimer Moseley
The Sansom Institute of Health Research, The University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Neurology 79:327-32. 2012
..Tactile dysfunction in chronic pain is explained as disruption in somatotopically based processing of stimuli. We hypothesized that people with chronic back pain also demonstrate a spatially defined disruption of tactile processing...
- Bodily illusions in health and disease: physiological and clinical perspectives and the concept of a cortical 'body matrix'
G Lorimer Moseley
The Sansom Institute for Health Research, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 36:34-46. 2012
..It also plays an important role in maintaining homeostatic control over the body. Its alteration can be seen to have both deleterious and beneficial effects in various clinical populations...
- First-person neuroscience and the understanding of pain
Michael A Thacker
Centre of Human and Aerospace Physiological Sciences, and Pain Research Section, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, UK
Med J Aust 196:410-1. 2012
..Might science need philosophy for a precise and complete understanding of pain?..
Fixed dystonia in complex regional pain syndrome: a descriptive and computational modeling approachAlexander G Munts
Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
BMC Neurol 11:53. 2011
..We hypothesized that dystonia could be the result of aberrant proprioceptive reflex strengths of position, velocity or force feedback...
- Space-based, but not arm-based, shift in tactile processing in complex regional pain syndrome and its relationship to cooling of the affected limb
G Lorimer Moseley
PaiN Group and Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, UK
Brain 132:3142-51. 2009
..This pattern is consistent with data from those with hemispatial neglect after stroke and raises the possibility that chronic CRPS involves a type of spatial neglect...
- Interdependence of movement and anatomy persists when amputees learn a physiologically impossible movement of their phantom limb
G Lorimer Moseley
University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:18798-802. 2009
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- Cognitive neuroscience: swapping bodies in the brain
G Lorimer Moseley
Sansom Institute for Health Research, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Curr Biol 21:R583-5. 2011
..A recent study has found that activity in multisensory brain areas, namely the premotor cortex, intraparietal cortex and the putamen, mirrors the vividness of ownership over a mannequin, induced by the body-swap illusion...
- The effect of tactile discrimination training is enhanced when patients watch the reflected image of their unaffected limb during training
G Lorimer Moseley
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Pain 144:314-9. 2009
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- Disrupted working body schema of the trunk in people with back pain
H Bray
Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London, London, UK
Br J Sports Med 45:168-73. 2011
..The authors hypothesised that chronic back pain is associated with reduced accuracy of left/right trunk rotation judgements...
- Disrupted cortical proprioceptive representation evokes symptoms of peculiarity, foreignness and swelling, but not pain
G L Moseley
Department of Human Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QX, UK
Rheumatology (Oxford) 45:196-200. 2006
..We aimed to determine the symptomatic effect of incongruent proprioceptive input, imparted by vibration of the wrist tendons, which evokes the illusion of perpetual wrist flexion and disrupts cortical proprioceptive representation...
- Using visual illusion to reduce at-level neuropathic pain in paraplegia
G Lorimer Moseley
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics and fMRIB Centre, University of Oxford, Le Gros Clark Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QX, United Kingdom
Pain 130:294-8. 2007
..Mean (95% CI) decrease in pain was 53 mm (45-61 mm) at post training and 43 mm (27-58 mm) at 3-month follow-up. Virtual walking may be a viable treatment for pain after spinal cord injury. A clinical trial seems warranted...
- Role of distorted body image in pain
Martin Lotze
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Pain Imaging Neuroscience Group, University of Oxford, Le Gros Clark Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QX, UK
Curr Rheumatol Rep 9:488-96. 2007
..We then review the emerging evidence regarding therapeutic approaches to distorted body image in people with painful disease...
- Graded motor imagery for pathologic pain: a randomized controlled trial
G Lorimer Moseley
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics and fMRIB Centre, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QX, UK
Neurology 67:2129-34. 2006
..Graded motor imagery is effective for a small subset of patients with CRPS1...
- External perturbation of the trunk in standing humans differentially activates components of the medial back muscles
G Lorimer Moseley
Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney, Australia
J Physiol 547:581-7. 2003
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- Tactile discrimination, but not tactile stimulation alone, reduces chronic limb pain
G Lorimer Moseley
Pain Imaging Neuroscience Group, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Le Gros Clark Building, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX13QX, UK
Pain 137:600-8. 2008
..These gains were maintained at three-month follow-up. We conclude that tactile stimulation can decrease pain and increase tactile acuity when patients are required to discriminate between the type and location of tactile stimuli...
- Thinking about movement hurts: the effect of motor imagery on pain and swelling in people with chronic arm pain
G Lorimer Moseley
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Arthritis Rheum 59:623-31. 2008
..Chronic painful disease is associated with pain on movement, which is presumed to be caused by noxious stimulation. We investigated whether motor imagery, in the absence of movement, increases symptoms in patients with chronic arm pain...
- Is mirror therapy all it is cracked up to be? Current evidence and future directions
G Lorimer Moseley
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics and Pain Imaging Neuroscience Group, Le Gros Clark Building, Oxford Centre for fMRI of the Brain, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK
Pain 138:7-10. 2008
- Psychologically induced cooling of a specific body part caused by the illusory ownership of an artificial counterpart
G Lorimer Moseley
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Oxford University, Oxford OX1 3QX, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:13169-73. 2008
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- Does anticipation of back pain predispose to back trouble?
G Lorimer Moseley
Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Randwick, Sydney, Austalia
Brain 127:2339-47. 2004
..This protective strategy is associated with compressive cost and is thought to predispose to spinal injury if maintained long term...
- I can't find it! Distorted body image and tactile dysfunction in patients with chronic back pain
G Lorimer Moseley
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Pain 140:239-43. 2008
..This finding raises the possibility that training body image or tactile acuity may help patients in chronic spinal pain, as it has been shown to do in patients with complex regional pain syndrome or phantom limb pain...
- Do training diaries affect and reflect adherence to home programs?
G Lorimer Moseley
Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, and the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Arthritis Rheum 55:662-4. 2006
