Neuromodulation and Neuroplasticity in Chronic Pain: New Therapeutic Tools
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Pain Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 1898
Special Issue Editors
Interests: research methods; low back pain; physiotherapy; construction; physical activity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Physiotherapy is the science that offers non-pharmacological therapeutic interventions aimed at preventing, treating, and alleviating the symptoms of different ailments.
The objective of healthcare is to address chronic pain due to its high prevalence in the population. Physiotherapy has a fundamental role in the development of therapeutic strategies that improve the management of chronic pain: nociceptive, neuropathic, and nociplastic, offering better quality of life and functionality to those who suffer from them and helping to identify the personal impact of the disease.
The advances offered by neuromodulation through non-invasive techniques such as transcranial magnetic stimulation and transcranial direct current stimulation are an alternative to pharmacological treatments to which patients do not respond adequately.
The aim of this Special Issue is to include studies that integrate non-invasive neuromodulation as a treatment in the approach to chronic pain, showing the beneficial effects in the different spheres involving the patient.
We invite practitioners and researchers to submit original research articles and systematic reviews to contribute to this Special Issue, which will serve to redefine and implement new therapeutic practices in conventional protocols.
Prof. Dr. Manuel Albornoz-Cabello
Dr. María De Los Ángeles Cardero-Durán
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- neuromodulation
- physical therapy
- chronic pain
- neuromodulation
- neuroplastic
- transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
- transcranial direct current stimulation (TDCS)
- evoked potentials
- central nervous system sensitization
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