Visual distortion of a limb modulates the pain and swelling evoked by movement.
The feeling that our body is ours, and is constantly there, is a fundamental aspect of self-awareness [1]. Although it is often taken for granted, our physical self-awareness, or body image, is disrupted in many clinical conditions [2] (see also [3] for a list of such conditions). One common disturb...
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| description | The feeling that our body is ours, and is constantly there, is a fundamental aspect of self-awareness [1]. Although it is often taken for granted, our physical self-awareness, or body image, is disrupted in many clinical conditions [2] (see also [3] for a list of such conditions). One common disturbance of body image, in which one limb feels bigger than it really is, can also be induced in healthy volunteers by using local anaesthesia or cutaneous stimulation [4]. Here we report that, in patients with chronic hand pain, magnifying their view of their own limb during movement significantly increases the pain and swelling evoked by movement. By contrast, minifying their view of the limb significantly decreases the pain and swelling evoked by movement. These results show a top-down effect of body image on body tissues, thus demonstrating that the link between body image and the tissues is bi-directional. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:85e28299-6bfd-4485-8e96-25810d0c7e492022-03-26T22:00:23ZVisual distortion of a limb modulates the pain and swelling evoked by movement.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:85e28299-6bfd-4485-8e96-25810d0c7e49EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2008Moseley, GParsons, TSpence, CThe feeling that our body is ours, and is constantly there, is a fundamental aspect of self-awareness [1]. Although it is often taken for granted, our physical self-awareness, or body image, is disrupted in many clinical conditions [2] (see also [3] for a list of such conditions). One common disturbance of body image, in which one limb feels bigger than it really is, can also be induced in healthy volunteers by using local anaesthesia or cutaneous stimulation [4]. Here we report that, in patients with chronic hand pain, magnifying their view of their own limb during movement significantly increases the pain and swelling evoked by movement. By contrast, minifying their view of the limb significantly decreases the pain and swelling evoked by movement. These results show a top-down effect of body image on body tissues, thus demonstrating that the link between body image and the tissues is bi-directional. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
| spellingShingle | Moseley, G Parsons, T Spence, C Visual distortion of a limb modulates the pain and swelling evoked by movement. |
| title | Visual distortion of a limb modulates the pain and swelling evoked by movement. |
| title_full | Visual distortion of a limb modulates the pain and swelling evoked by movement. |
| title_fullStr | Visual distortion of a limb modulates the pain and swelling evoked by movement. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Visual distortion of a limb modulates the pain and swelling evoked by movement. |
| title_short | Visual distortion of a limb modulates the pain and swelling evoked by movement. |
| title_sort | visual distortion of a limb modulates the pain and swelling evoked by movement |
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