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Volume 109, Issue 3 , Pages 497-499 , June 2004

Exercise lowers pain threshold in chronic fatigue syndrome

  • Alan Whiteside

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Clinical Physics, Institute of Neurological Sciences, South Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust, Glasgow, UK
    • ,
  • Stig Hansen

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Clinical Physics, Institute of Neurological Sciences, South Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust, Glasgow, UK
    • ,
  • Abhijit Chaudhuri

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Institute of Neurological Sciences, South Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust, 1345 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 4TF, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44-141-201-2492; fax: +44-141-201-2993

Received 17 December 2003 ,Revised 17 February 2004 ,Accepted 23 February 2004.

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PII: S0304-3959(04)00121-6

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2004.02.029

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Volume 109, Issue 3 , Pages 497-499 , June 2004

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