Characterisation of motor cortex organisation in patients with different presentations of persistent low back pain

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Persistence of low back pain is thought to be associated with different underlying pain mechanisms, including ongoing nociceptive input and central sensitisation. We hypothesised that primary motor cortex (M1) representations of back muscles (a measure of motor system adaptation) would differ between pain mechanisms, with more consistent observations in individuals presumed to have an ongoing contribution of nociceptive input consistently related to movement/posture. We tested 28 participants with low back pain sub-grouped by the presumed underlying pain mechanisms: nociceptive pain, nociplastic pain and a mixed group with features consistent with both. Transcranial magnetic stimulation was used to study M1 organisation of back muscles. M1 maps of multifidus (deep and superficial) and longissimus erector spinae were recorded with fine-wire electromyography and thoracic erector spinae with surface electromyography. The nociplastic pain group had greater variability in M1 map location (centre of gravity) than other groups (p

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Elgueta-Cancino, E., Sheeran, L., Salomoni, S., Hall, L., & Hodges, P. W. (2021). Characterisation of motor cortex organisation in patients with different presentations of persistent low back pain. European Journal of Neuroscience, 54(11), 7989–8005. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15511

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