ArticleNeural plasticity2018
Effect of Cutaneous Heat Pain on Corticospinal Excitability of the Tibialis Anterior at Rest and during Submaximal Contraction.
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- Corticomotor Responses to Experimental, Acute, and Chronic Lower Limb Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Brain and behavior · 2025Pooled it
- Motor Learning in Response to Different Experimental Pain Models Among Healthy Individuals: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- Acute pain impairs retention of locomotor learning.Journal of neurophysiology · 2024Trial
- Contralateral Thermal Pain and Naturally Occurring Muscle Pain Have Different Effects on Force Production During a Fixed Perceived Effort Handgrip Task.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2026Article
- Pain suppresses corticospinal excitability, independent of tactile afferent inhibition.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2026Article
- The effects of unpleasant thermal and auditory stimulus on wrist extensor muscle activity during discrete and continuous wrist movements.Experimental brain research · 2025Article
- Shoulder Musculoskeletal Disorder Rehabilitation Using a Robotic Device Based on Electromyography (EMG) Biofeedback: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- A Comprehensive Review of Pain Interference on Postural Control: From Experimental to Chronic Pain.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Review
- Does musculoskeletal pain interfere with motor learning in a gait adaptation task? A proof-of-concept study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2022Article
- Impact of Experimental Tonic Pain on Corrective Motor Responses to Mechanical Perturbations.Neural plasticity · 2020Article
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Abstract
Previous studies have shown that pain can interfere with motor control. The neural mechanisms underlying these effects remain largely unknown. At the upper limb, mounting evidence suggests that pain-induced reduction in corticospinal excitability is involved. No equivalent data is currently available at the lower limb. The present study therefore examined the effect of thermal pain on the corticospinal drive to tibialis anterior (TA) at rest and during an isometric submaximal dorsiflexion. Transcranial magnetic stimulation was used to induce motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) in the TA at rest and during contraction in the presence or absence of cutaneous heat pain induced by a thermode positioned above the TA (51°C during 1 s). With similar pain ratings between conditions (3.9/10 at rest and 3.6/10 during contraction), results indicate significant decreases in MEP amplitude during both rest (-9%) and active conditions (-13%) (main effect of pain,
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