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Burton AR, Fazalbhoy A, Macefield VG. Sympathetic Responses to Noxious Stimulation of Muscle and Skin. Front Neurol. 2016;7:109doi: 10.3389/fneur.2016.00109.
Burton, A. R., Fazalbhoy, A., & Macefield, V. G. (2016). Sympathetic Responses to Noxious Stimulation of Muscle and Skin. Frontiers in neurology, 7109. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2016.00109
Burton, Alexander R, et al. "Sympathetic Responses to Noxious Stimulation of Muscle and Skin." Frontiers in neurology vol. 7 (2016): 109. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2016.00109
Burton AR, Fazalbhoy A, Macefield VG. Sympathetic Responses to Noxious Stimulation of Muscle and Skin. Front Neurol. 2016 Jun 30;7:109. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2016.00109. eCollection 2016. PMID: 27445972; PMCID: PMC4927631.
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Front Neurol. 2016 Jun 30;7:109. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2016.00109. eCollection 2016.

Sympathetic Responses to Noxious Stimulation of Muscle and Skin.

Frontiers in neurology

Alexander R Burton, Azharuddin Fazalbhoy, Vaughan G Macefield

Affiliations

  1. School of Medicine, Western Sydney University , Sydney, NSW , Australia.
  2. School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University , Bundoora, VIC , Australia.
  3. School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

PMID: 27445972 PMCID: PMC4927631 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2016.00109

Abstract

Acute pain triggers adaptive physiological responses that serve as protective mechanisms that prevent continuing damage to tissues and cause the individual to react to remove or escape the painful stimulus. However, an extension of the pain response beyond signaling tissue damage and healing, such as in chronic pain states, serves no particular biological function; it is maladaptive. The increasing number of chronic pain sufferers is concerning, and the associated disease burden is putting healthcare systems around the world under significant pressure. The incapacitating effects of long-lasting pain are not just psychological - reflexes driven by nociceptors during the establishment of chronic pain may cause serious physiological consequences on regulation of other body systems. The sympathetic nervous system is inherently involved in a host of physiological responses evoked by noxious stimulation. Experimental animal and human models demonstrate a diverse array of heterogeneous reactions to nociception. The purpose of this review is to understand how pain affects the sympathetic nervous system by investigating the reflex cardiovascular and neural responses to acute pain and the long-lasting physiological responses to prolonged (tonic) pain. By observing the sympathetic responses to long-lasting pain, we can begin to understand the physiological consequences of long-term pain on cardiovascular regulation.

Keywords: blood pressure; cutaneous pain; muscle pain; muscle sympathetic nerve activity; nociception; skin sympathetic nerve activity

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