Abstract
Pain both acute and chronic remains a significant health problem that affects not only the spinal cord injured (SCI) patient’s quality of life but also the care givers. Thus gaining a greater understanding of the mechanisms underlying the development pain following trauma is critical for the development of therapeutic interventions to help attenuate pain development and pain maintenance. To do this, animal models have been developed that demonstrate reproducible changes in threshold to mechanical and thermal stimuli. This chapter focuses on the different behavioral tests used to indicate an increase in sensitivity to formerly nonnoxious stimuli, i.e. “pain behaviors” in rodent models of SCI.
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