A Comprehensive Review of Pain Interference on Postural Control: From Experimental to Chronic Pain

Overview

Journal Medicina (Kaunas)

Publisher MDPI

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2022 Jun 24

PMID 35744075

Authors

Frederic J F Viseux

Martin Simoneau

Maxime Billot

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Abstract

Motor control, movement impairment, and postural control recovery targeted in rehabilitation could be affected by pain. The main objective of this comprehensive review is to provide a synthesis of the effect of experimental and chronic pain on postural control throughout the available literature. After presenting the neurophysiological pathways of pain, we demonstrated that pain, preferentially localized in the lower back or in the leg induced postural control alteration. Although proprioceptive and cortical excitability seem modified with pain, spinal modulation assessment might provide a new understanding of the pain phenomenon related to postural control. The literature highlights that the motor control of trunk muscles in patient presenting with lower back pain could be dichotomized in two populations, where the first over-activates the trunk muscles, and the second under-activates the trunk muscles; both generate an increase in tissue loading. Taking all these findings into account will help clinician to provide adapted treatment for managing both pain and postural control.

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