In 2004, Claude J. Spicher, Certified Hand Therapist Switzerland, founded the Somatosensory Rehabilitation Centre of the human body at the Clinique Générale, a member of the Swiss Medical Network. He is a scientific collaborator for the Department of Neurosciences and Movement Sciences, University of Fribourg (JM Annoni), and an affiliate mem-ber of the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University (Montreal). Since 2004, he is editor-in-chief of the e-News Somatosens Rehab, the official e-journal of the Somatosensory Rehabilitation of Pain Network (SRPN)—www.neuropain.ch. Claude has given more than three hundred invited presentations in Europe, USA, Canada and Japan. He has published books and articles in several internationally renowned publications such as Somatosens Mot Res, J Reconstr Microsurg, Pain Med and Springer-Nature.
Dear Colleague,
Since yesterday, August 12, the article in published in the original journal 37(2) 77-86 the link of the free access is consequently broken ..
Abstract - available: (08/13/2024): https://urlz.fr/rEWd
Publisher - available: (0…
Dear all,
"irradiations on the big toe" means efferent throbbing sensation along the the medial terminal branch of superficial peroneal nerve (common fibular nerve / sciatic nerve) page 82 (Atlas of cutaneous nerve territories - Sept 25 2020) unt…
Spicher, C.J. (2006). Handbook for Somatosensory Rehabilitation. – Foreword : A.L. Dellon. Montpellier, Paris: Sauramps Médical
Bea careful Amanda, the Test Administration of the McGill Pain Questionnaire is NOT the same than the French version …
Nice to hear about you Dr Nur :-D
Yesterday, I discovered for the first time:
PEA/Plex: B1, B2, B3, B6, B12 vitams + palmitoylethanolamide
It seems that pain after a heel prothesis decreased with this PEA/Plex.
In 2019, whe we were editing…
Dear Ellen,
Dear all,
On this topic, the state of the art, in 2020 is:
Statistically, the decrease of the Pressure Perception threshold (in gram) and the decrease of the McGill Pain Questionnaire (in point) is correlated.
Statistically, th…
Here another link. As we were too successful on twiter the publisher closed the free access :-(
https://researchgate.net/publication/338094705_Evaluating_a_sensitive_issue_reliability_of_a_clinical_evaluation_for_allodynia_severity
There is no mistake in the Handbook
The first McGill Pain Questionnaire was published as:
Melzack, R. & Torgerson, W.S. (1971). On the language of pain. Anesthesiology, 34(1), 50-59.
This pre-versino included 16 sugroups and NOT he 20 sub…
Fig. 6 page 41 Part I of the Handbook
These somatosensory qualifiers are in the same order than the original McGill
but to shorten it
in three equal columns
instead of
two big columns and
one short column
but eh words are the same
in …
Hi everyone,
The version published in the Handbook and its annex is:
Melzack, R. (1975). The McGill Pain Questionnaire : Major Properties and Scoring Methods. Pain, 1(3), 277-299.
The ORIGINAL one
CJ
Dear Joshua from Bangalore,
I hope that evrything is laright to you and your family.
I was late to answer because, at first, I need to look in our database.
On 3768 patients we tested only 2 of them for a tongue numbness (stage I of A-bêta …
Dear all,
Could someone find in our Somatosens Rehah e-journal the table with
the mean time and the SD of rainbow pain scale disappearance ?
Peace, Strenght and Light
CJ in Osaka (Jpn)
Dear all,
This article is very complex. It is a step before the publication of ICD-11.
Here is the attached pdf version given on Researchgate.net
Scholz J, Finnerup NB, Attal N, Aziz Q, Baron R, Bennett MI, Benoliel R, Cohen M, Cruccu G, Da…
Dear all,
During 17 years people have asked me about this moodle. It seems that it was a necessity. Now, we are 603 therapists, medical doctors, osteopaths, ans so on , who have the opportunity to share about Somatosensory Rehabilitation of Pain.…