PAIN
Volume 7, Issue 2 , Pages 115-127 , October 1979

Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and the reaction to experimental pain in human subjects

  • Clifford J. Woolf

      Affiliations

    • Present address: Department of Physiology, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, Cleveland Street, London W1P 6DB, U.K.

,Accepted 4 July 1979.

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PAIN
Volume 7, Issue 2 , Pages 115-127 , October 1979

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