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Peter Svensson

Peter Svensson

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Medicine

D-Index
90
Citations
42392
World Ranking
12000
National Ranking
128

Overview

Peter Svensson is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with significant contributions to several subfields including Complementary and Manual Therapy, Physiology, Neurology, Orthodontics, and Rheumatology.

The main topics of Svensson's scientific work include Temporomandibular Joint Disorders, Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders, Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Oropharyngeal Anatomy and Pathologies, Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation, and Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research.

Svensson's recent papers reflect a focus on bruxism assessment and temporomandibular disorders. These include:

  • Standardised Tool for the Assessment of Bruxism, 2023, Journal of Oral Rehabilitation
  • Towards a Standardized Tool for the Assessment of Bruxism (STAB)-Overview and general remarks of a multidimensional bruxism evaluation system, 2020, Journal of Oral Rehabilitation
  • Diagnostic criteria for temporomandibular disorders (DC/TMD) for children and adolescents: An international Delphi study-Part 1-Development of Axis I, 2021, Journal of Oral Rehabilitation
  • Features and methods to discriminate between mechanism-based categories of pain experienced in the musculoskeletal system: a Delphi expert consensus study, 2022, Pain
  • The development of the Standardised Tool for the Assessment of Bruxism (STAB): An international road map, 2022, Journal of Oral Rehabilitation

Frequent co-authors of Svensson's work include Frank Lobbezoo, Fernando G. Exposto, Yuri Martins Costa, Michail Koutris, and Paulo César Rodrigues Conti.

Svensson publishes regularly in several academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Journal of Oral Rehabilitation
  • Scientific Reports
  • Pain
  • Clinical Oral Investigations
  • Cephalalgia

Best Publications

  • Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (DC/TMD) for Clinical and Research Applications: recommendations of the International RDC/TMD Consortium Network* and Orofacial Pain Special Interest Group†

    Eric L Schiffman;Richard Ohrbach;Edmond Truelove;John O Look

  • A classification of chronic pain for ICD-11.

    Rolf Detlef Treede;Winfried Rief;Antonia Barke;Qasim Aziz

  • Chronic pain as a symptom or a disease: the IASP Classification of Chronic Pain for the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).

    Rolf Detlef Treede;Winfried Rief;Antonia Barke;Qasim Aziz

  • Bruxism defined and graded: an international consensus

    F. Lobbezoo;J. Ahlberg;A. G. Glaros;T. Kato

  • The IASP classification of chronic pain for ICD-11: Chronic primary pain

    Michael Nicholas;Johan W.S. Vlaeyen;Johan W.S. Vlaeyen;Winfried Rief;Antonia Barke

  • International consensus on the assessment of bruxism : Report of a work in progress

    F. Lobbezoo;J. Ahlberg;K. G. Raphael;P. Wetselaar

  • The IASP classification of chronic pain for ICD-11: chronic neuropathic pain.

    Joachim Scholz;Nanna B. Finnerup;Nadine Attal;Qasim Aziz

  • Trigeminal neuralgia New classification and diagnostic grading for practice and research

    Giorgio Cruccu;Nanna B. Finnerup;Troels S. Jensen;Joachim Scholz

  • The influence of low back pain on muscle activity and coordination during gait: a clinical and experimental study

    Lars Arendt-Nielsen;Thomas Graven-Nielsen;Heine Svarrer;Peter Svensson

  • Effects of experimental muscle pain on muscle activity and co-ordination during static and dynamic motor function.

    Thomas Graven-Nielsen;Peter Svensson;Lars Arendt-Nielsen

  • Craniofacial muscle pain: review of mechanisms and clinical manifestations.

    Peter Svensson;Thomas Graven-Nielsen

  • Cerebral processing of acute skin and muscle pain in humans.

    Peter Svensson;Satoshi Minoshima;Ahmad Beydoun;Thomas J. Morrow;Thomas J. Morrow

  • Sex-related differences in human pain and rat afferent discharge evoked by injection of glutamate into the masseter muscle.

    Brian E. Cairns;James W. Hu;Lars Arendt-Nielsen;Barry J. Sessle

  • Injection of nerve growth factor into human masseter muscle evokes long-lasting mechanical allodynia and hyperalgesia.

    Peter Svensson;Brian Edwin Cairns;Kelun Wang;Lars Arendt-Nielsen

  • Quantification of local and referred muscle pain in humans after sequential i.m. injections of hypertonic saline

    Thomas Graven-Nielsen;Lars Arendt-Nielsen;Peter Svensson;Troels Staehelin Jensen

  • Activation of peripheral NMDA receptors contributes to human pain and rat afferent discharges evoked by injection of glutamate into the masseter muscle.

    Brian E. Cairns;Peter Svensson;Kelun Wang;Steen Hupfeld

  • Relationships between craniofacial pain and bruxism.

    P. Svensson;P. Svensson;F. Jadidi;T. Arima;L. Baad-Hansen

  • Selective Opiate Modulation of Nociceptive Processing in the Human Brain

    Kenneth L. Casey;Peter Svensson;Thomas J. Morrow;Jonathan Raz

  • Referred muscle pain: basic and clinical findings

    Lars Arendt-Nielsen;Peter Svensson

  • Reliability of intraoral quantitative sensory testing (QST)

    Maria Pigg;Lene Baad-Hansen;Peter Svensson;Peter Svensson;Mark Drangsholt

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Arendt-Nielsen
Lars Arendt-Nielsen Aalborg University
Kelun Wang
Kelun Wang Aalborg University
Thomas Graven-Nielsen
Thomas Graven-Nielsen Aalborg University
Troels S. Jensen
Troels S. Jensen Aarhus University
Frank Lobbezoo
Frank Lobbezoo Academic Center for Dentistry Amsterdam
Brian E. Cairns
Brian E. Cairns University of British Columbia
Barry J. Sessle
Barry J. Sessle University of Toronto
Kenneth L. Casey
Kenneth L. Casey University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Asbjørn Mohr Drewes
Asbjørn Mohr Drewes Aalborg University
Andrew C. N. Chen
Andrew C. N. Chen Capital Medical University

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