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Pain Laboratory

The Pain Lab undertakes research on the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and psychosocial aspects of pain, with a particular focus on pain in HIV and diabetic distal symmetrical polyneuropathy. The laboratory is equipped with start of the art facilities for studying pain phenotypes in pathological and non-pathological (experimental) states (e.g., quantitative sensory testing, assessment of intra-epidermal nerve fibre density, conditioned pain modulation).

 

PROJECTS

The laboratory is currently offering the following projects:

  • Relationship between corneal innervation and painful and non-painful diabetic neuropathy;
  • Short-term variability in pain sensitivity in unsensitised and sensitised pain states;
  • Sensory function in patients with long-COVID.

 

UNIVERSITY STAFF:

Prof Peter Kamerman

Prof Antonia Wadley

Prof Stella Iacovides

Dr Prinisha Pillay

 

HONORARY STAFF:

Dr Andreas Themistocleous, Oxford University, UK

 

CONTACT:

Peter Kamerman (peter.kamerman@wits.ac.za)

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