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Kathleen A. Sluka

Kathleen A. Sluka

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Medicine

D-Index
105
Citations
38010
World Ranking
6807
National Ranking
3594

Overview

Kathleen A. Sluka is affiliated with the University of Iowa in the United States, focusing on research primarily within the field of medicine. Their work spans several subfields including pharmacology, physiology, psychiatry and mental health, orthopedics and sports medicine, and rehabilitation.

Their research concentrates on topics related to musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, pain mechanisms and treatments, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome research, exercise and physiological responses, hormonal and reproductive studies, tendon structure and treatment, and pain management and opioid use.

Among recent publications are the following papers:

  • The revised International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain: concepts, challenges, and compromises, 2020, published in Pain
  • Using TENS for Pain Control: Update on the State of the Evidence, 2022, published in Medicina
  • Mechanism of exercise-induced analgesia: what we can learn from physically active animals, 2020, published in PAIN Reports
  • Predicting chronic postsurgical pain: current evidence and a novel program to develop predictive biomarker signatures, 2023, published in Pain
  • Features and methods to discriminate between mechanism-based categories of pain experienced in the musculoskeletal system: a Delphi expert consensus study, 2022, published in Pain

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sluka include:

  • Dana L. Dailey
  • Carol Vance
  • Ruth L. Chimenti
  • Joseph B. Lesnak
  • Emine O. Bayman

The scientist has contributed numerous publications to several academic venues, notably:

  • Journal of Pain (46 publications)
  • Pain (14 publications)
  • Physical Therapy (5 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (5 publications)
  • Contemporary Clinical Trials (4 publications)

The extensive body of work by Kathleen A. Sluka includes 233 publications within the medicine field, with particular emphasis on pain research and related rehabilitation sciences. This research profile reflects a multidisciplinary approach to understanding and treating pain and musculoskeletal conditions through pharmacological, physiological, and clinical pathways.

Best Publications

  • The revised International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain: concepts, challenges, and compromises.

    Srinivasa N. Raja;Daniel B. Carr;Milton Cohen;Nanna B. Finnerup;Nanna B. Finnerup

  • Management of postoperative pain: A clinical practice guideline from the american pain society, the american society of regional anesthesia and pain medicine, and the american society of anesthesiologists' committee on regional anesthesia, executive committee, and administrative council.

    Roger Chou;Debra B. Gordon;Oscar A. De Leon-Casasola;Jack M. Rosenberg

  • Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation: Basic science mechanisms and clinical effectiveness

    Kathleen A. Sluka;Deirdre Walsh

  • The DRASIC Cation Channel Contributes to the Detection of Cutaneous Touch and Acid Stimuli in Mice

    Margaret P. Price;Sabrina L. McIlwrath;Jinghui Xie;Chun Cheng

  • Neurobiology of fibromyalgia and chronic widespread pain.

    Kathleen A. Sluka;Daniel J. Clauw

  • Unilateral intramuscular injections of acidic saline produce a bilateral, long-lasting hyperalgesia

    K.A. Sluka;A. Kalra;S.A. Moore

  • Chronic hyperalgesia induced by repeated acid injections in muscle is abolished by the loss of ASIC3, but not ASIC1.

    Kathleen A Sluka;Margaret P Price;Nicole M Breese;Cheryl L Stucky

  • Effectiveness of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation for treatment of hyperalgesia and pain.

    Josimari M. DeSantana;Deirdre M. Walsh;Carol Vance;Barbara A. Rakel

  • An overview of animal models of pain: disease models and outcome measures.

    Nicholas S. Gregory;Amber L. Harris;Caleb R. Robinson;Patrick M. Dougherty

  • Using TENS for pain control: the state of the evidence.

    Carol G T Vance;Dana L Dailey;Barbara A Rakel;Kathleen A Sluka

  • Spinal Blockade of Opioid Receptors Prevents the Analgesia Produced by TENS in Arthritic Rats

    Kathleen A. Sluka;Merek Deacon;Andrea Stibal;Shannon Strissel

  • Blockade of Opioid Receptors in Rostral Ventral Medulla Prevents Antihyperalgesia Produced by Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS)

    A. Kalra;M. O. Urban;K. A. Sluka

  • Core competencies for pain management: results of an interprofessional consensus summit.

    Scott M. Fishman;Heather M. Young;Ellyn Lucas Arwood;Roger Chou

  • The initial effects of knee joint mobilization on osteoarthritic hyperalgesia.

    Penny Moss;Kathleen Sluka;Anthony Wright

  • Does exercise increase or decrease pain? Central mechanisms underlying these two phenomena.

    Lucas V. Lima;Thiago S. S. Abner;Kathleen A. Sluka

  • Unilateral carrageenan injection into muscle or joint induces chronic bilateral hyperalgesia in rats.

    Rajan Radhakrishnan;Steven A Moore;Kathleen A Sluka

  • Unique Role of Dystroglycan in Peripheral Nerve Myelination, Nodal Structure, and Sodium Channel Stabilization

    Fumiaki Saito;Steven A Moore;Rita Barresi;Michael D Henry

  • Joint manipulation reduces hyperalgesia by activation of monoamine receptors but not opioid or GABA receptors in the spinal cord

    D.A. Skyba;R. Radhakrishnan;J.J. Rohlwing;A. Wright

  • Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation for acute pain.

    Mark I Johnson;Carole A Paley;Tracey E Howe;Kathleen A Sluka

  • Review Articles Core Competencies for Pain Management: Results of an Interprofessional Consensus Summit

    Scott M. Fishman;Heather M. Young;Ellyn Lucas Arwood;Roger Chou

Frequent Co-Authors

Karin N. Westlund
Karin N. Westlund University of New Mexico
Leslie J. Crofford
Leslie J. Crofford Vanderbilt University Medical Center
John J. Callaghan
John J. Callaghan University of Iowa
Barbara D. Boyan
Barbara D. Boyan Virginia Commonwealth University
Lars Arendt-Nielsen
Lars Arendt-Nielsen Aalborg University
Karen J. Berkley
Karen J. Berkley Florida State University
Wendy M. Kohrt
Wendy M. Kohrt University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Lee-Ann H. Allen
Lee-Ann H. Allen University of Iowa
Roger M. Enoka
Roger M. Enoka University of Colorado Boulder
John A. Wemmie
John A. Wemmie University of Iowa

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