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Cutaneous allodynia: Pain resulting from an innocuous stimulus to normal skin or scalp. The stimulus that triggers allodynia is not normally painful. The pain can be provoked by combing or brushing the hair, shaving, showering, wearing glasses or earrings. The pressure of a single strand of hair reportedly can feel like a jab with a white-hot knife. Cutaneous allodynia is believed due to a transient increase in the responsiveness of central pain neurons that process information arising from the skin. It is commonly associated with migraine. From allo- meaning other + -dynia meaning pain.
Cutaneous allodynia: Pain resulting from an innocuous stimulus to normal skin or scalp. The stimulus that triggers allodynia is not normally painful.
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NEW YORK -- The exquisite skin pain and sensitivity of severe cutaneous allodynia during headaches may be more common with transformed migraine, researchers found.
Richard B. Lipton, MD, 1, 2, 3 Marcelo E. Bigal, MD, PhD, 1, 3, 4 Sait Ashina, MD, 1 Rami Burstein, PhD, 5 Stephen Silberstein, MD, 6 Michael L. Reed, PhD, 7 Daniel Serrano, MA, 7 and ...
Most often the pain in on the skin (cutaneous allodynia) - on the scalp and also on the arms. This can make wearing of jewelry, shaving (face), or even the normal ...