Effect of acute experimental hand pain on left-right discrimination response latency for hand recognition.

CONCLUSION: Our results were not consistent with previous hand left-right discrimination response latency results and may cast doubt on the attentional bias hypothesis that is currently considered to underpin response latency changes during acute experimental hand pain. Individual responses to pain, subsets of participants, and differing mental rotation strategies during the left-right discrimination task may have influenced the results.
PMID: 30724639 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Physiotherapy Theory and Practice - February 6, 2019 Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Phillips N, Hach S, Mannion J, Moran R Tags: Physiother Theory Pract Source Type: research