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. . .  article was published immediately upon acceptance. It can be downloaded, printed and distributed freely for any purposes (see copyright notice below). Articles in BMC journals are listed in PubMed and archived at PubMed Central. For information about publishing your research in BMC journals or any BioMed Central journal, go to http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/authors/ BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine © 2006 Dahlin et al. , licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Page 2 - 1 . . .
. . .  Changes in assessed PT in women (left) and men (right). PM = pain matcher Figure 3 – Gender differences Changes related to gender in assessed DT (left) and PT (right). PM = pain matcher Page 12 - 11 - Table 1 - Assessed levels of detection and pain thresholds in response to vibratory stimulation to one forearm . Descriptive data, showing Pain matcher values as median value and range (min to max, numerical cut-off 0-99). Before During Immediately after 10 minutes after Women, n=29 men, n=27 Women, n=29 men, n=27 women, n=29 men, n=27 women, n=27 men, n=24 Detection threshold 3 (1 to 8) 5 (1 to 9) 4 (1 to 8) 5 (2 to 8) 4 (2 to 9) 5 (1 to 9) 4 (2 to 7) 5 (2 to 8) Pain threshold 12 (5 to 24) 15 (5 to 71) 16 (6 to 30) 17 (7 to 99) 15 (7 to 24) 18 . . .
. . .  published immediately upon acceptance. It can be downloaded, printed and distributed freely for any purposes (see copyright notice below). Articles in BMC journals are listed in PubMed and archived at PubMed Central. For information about publishing your research in BMC journals or any BioMed Central journal, go to http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/authors/ BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine © 2006 Dahlin et al. , licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Page 2 - 1 - Vibratory stimulation . . .
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