Evidence for expansion of spinal reflex receptive fields in chronic pain patients with endometriosis

The paper reports evidence from chronic pain patients with endometriosis for changes in spinal sensorimotor processing, specifically expansion of spinal reflex receptive fields. Using high-level neurophysiological testing of reflex responsiveness, the authors observed enlarged receptive fields in these patients compared with expectations for more localized pain processing. A key caveat is that the work is presented as meeting abstract material (Swiss Medical Weekly supplement), limiting methodological detail and constraining how firmly the findings can be generalized. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it focuses on spinal reflex receptive field expansion in chronic pain patients with endometriosis.

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