Painful hand and moving finger treated by wearing a glove.

Wider, C; Kuntzer, T; Olivier, P; Debatisse, D; Nançoz, R; Maeder, P; Bogousslavsky, J; Vingerhoets, F · Neurology · 2006

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

The authors report a patient with unilateral painful hand and moving finger in whom tactile stimulation interrupted both the movement and the pain. This effect suggests a gating mechanism at a segmental level. The difference between afferent and efferent pathway levels and the delay of several months between trauma and occurrence of symptoms support a central mechanism, most probably involving sensorimotor reorganization at a segmental level.

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