Exercise-induced Pain and Analgesia? Underlying Mechanisms and Clinical Translation

Overview

Journal Pain

Specialties Neurology
Psychiatry

Date 2018 Aug 17

PMID 30113953

Citations 79

Authors

Kathleen A Sluka

Laura Frey-Law

Marie Hoeger Bement

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