Thomas Graven-Nielsen

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Denmark Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• Sensitization in patients with painful knee osteoarthritis.

  Lars Arendt-Nielsen;HongLing Nie;Mogens Berg Laursen;Birgitte Schantz Laursen

  1228
  Citations

• Assessment of mechanisms in localized and widespread musculoskeletal pain

  Thomas Graven-Nielsen;Lars Arendt-Nielsen

  585
  Citations

• 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

  546
  Citations

• Ketamine reduces muscle pain, temporal summation, and referred pain in fibromyalgia patients

  Thomas Graven-Nielsen;Sally Aspegren Kendall;Karl G. Henriksson;Mats Bengtsson

  523
  Citations

• Inhibition of motor system excitability at cortical and spinal level by tonic muscle pain

  Domenica Le Pera;Domenica Le Pera;Thomas Graven-Nielsen;Massimiliano Valeriani;Antonio Oliviero

  499
  Citations

• 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

  475
  Citations

• Exercise-Induced Hypoalgesia in Pain-Free and Chronic Pain Populations: State of the Art and Future Directions

  David Rice;Jo Nijs;Eva Kosek;Timothy Wideman

  464
  Citations

• Normalization of widespread hyperesthesia and facilitated spatial summation of deep-tissue pain in knee osteoarthritis patients after knee replacement.

  Thomas Graven-Nielsen;T. Wodehouse;R. M. Langford;Lars Arendt-Nielsen

  415
  Citations

• Osteoarthritis and its association with muscle hyperalgesia: an experimental controlled study

  Prem Bajaj;Priti Bajaj;Thomas Graven-Nielsen;Lars Arendt-Nielsen

  408
  Citations

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

  Peter Svensson;Thomas Graven-Nielsen

  400
  Citations

• Hyperexcitability in fibromyalgia

  J Sörensen;T Graven-Nielsen;K G Henriksson;M Bengtsson

  362
  Citations

• Generalized deep-tissue hyperalgesia in patients with chronic low-back pain

  Søren O'Neill;Claus Manniche;Thomas Graven-Nielsen;Lars Arendt-Nielsen

  360
  Citations

• Generalised muscular hyperalgesia in chronic whiplash syndrome.

  Mona Koelbaek Johansen;Thomas Graven-Nielsen;Anders Schou Olesen;Lars Arendt-Nielsen

  339
  Citations

• INHIBITION OF MAXIMAL VOLUNTARY CONTRACTION FORCE BY EXPERIMENTAL MUSCLE PAIN: A CENTRALLY MEDIATED MECHANISM

  Thomas Graven-Nielsen;Hans Lund;Lars Arendt-Nielsen;Bente Danneskiold-Samsøe

  328
  Citations

• The peripheral apparatus of muscle pain: evidence from animal and human studies.

  Thomas Graven-Nielsen;Sigfried Mense

  326
  Citations

• 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

  309
  Citations

• Incidence and epidemiology of tibial shaft fractures

  Peter Larsen;Rasmus Elsoe;Sandra Hope Hansen;Thomas Graven-Nielsen

  303
  Citations

• 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

  284
  Citations

• Similarities between exercise-induced hypoalgesia and conditioned pain modulation in humans.

  Henrik Bjarke Vaegter;Gitte Handberg;Thomas Graven-Nielsen

  272
  Citations

• Central sensitization in fibromyalgia and other musculoskeletal disorders

  Lars Arendt-Nielsen;Thomas Graven-Nielsen

  265
  Citations

• Fundamentals of muscle pain, referred pain, and deep tissue hyperalgesia.

  Thomas Graven-Nielsen

  254
  Citations