MRC Systems GmbH
MRC - Model PinPrick -Stimulators
FromMRC Systems GmbH
One set includes seven weighted pinprick stimulators for different pressures (between 8mN and 512mN). Tips have a flat contact area of 0.25mm in diameter with a controlled edge curvature.
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Pinprick stimulation ...
- is used to assess gain and loss of mechanical sensory functions
- is one important contribution to characterize the somatosensory phenotype of patients with neuropathic pain
- provides quantitative data for mechanical detection and pain thresholds as well as stimulus/response functions
- provides quantitative data for pain summation to repetitive stimuli
- is an important step towards mechanism based treatment of pain syndromes
- is a reproducible method to diagnose changes of pain sensitivity like mechanical hyperalgesia or dynamic mechanical allodynia
- is used to investigate the central sensitization to A-fibre nociceptor input
- enables the validation of pain treatment concepts by standardized protocols and absolute reference values
- Fast and safe application in clinical routine
- Approved tip geometry
- Calibrated forces
- User-independent sensoric stimulation levels
- No damage to skin tissue
- Age- and gender-matched reference values are available
- Recommended by German Research Network of Neuropathic Pain (DFNS)
- Recommended by European Federation of Neurological Societies
- Compact and robust design
- Patented technology
- The MRI compatible version can be used during MRI, fMRI, and PET imaging