Martine Bordeleau

• PhD
• PostDoc Position at Université de Sherbrooke

Background Temporal summation (TS) and conditioned pain modulation (CPM) are impaired in many chronic pain individuals, although typical TS and CPM responses remain unclear. Providing a quantile distribution of TS and CPM values could help determine whether TS and CPM responses fall outside the usual ranges, thereby informing pain management strate...

La diffusion accessible des connaissances scientifiques sur la douleur joue un rôle fondamental dans la promotion de l’accès universel au savoir et sa compréhension par le grand public. L’objectif du présent article est de lever le voile sur l’importance cruciale de la vulgarisation scientifique dans le domaine de la douleur. Celui-ci analyse les d...

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Objectives: Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is a surgical treatment for severe, chronic, neuropathic pain. It is based on one to two lead(s) implanted in the epidural space, stimulating the dorsal column. It has long been assumed that when deactivating SCS, there is a variable interval before the patient perceives the return of the pain, a phenomenon...

This article investigates the benefits of adopting qualitative and quantitative sensory testing (QQST) in sensory assessment, with a focus on understanding neuropathic pain. The innovative QQST method combines participant qualitative experiences with quantitative psychophysical measurements, offering a more varied interpretation of sensory abnormal...

Purpose To explore the intensity and variation of workers’ worries, pain, psychosocial factors, and margin of manoeuvre before and after a return-to-work program, and identified the psychosocial factors associated with non-return to work at the end of the rehabilitation program. Methods A pre-post study design was used. A convenience sample of 80...

Background The Fear-Avoidance Components Scale (FACS) is a reliable and valid instrument widely used to assess fear-avoidance beliefs related to pain and disability. However, there is a scarcity of validated translations of the FACS in different cultural and linguistic contexts, including the French population. This study aimed to translate and val...

Background The Fear-Avoidance Components Scale (FACS) is a reliable and valid instrument widely used to assess fear-avoidance beliefs related to pain and disability. However, there is a scarcity of validated translations of the FACS in different cultural and linguistic contexts, including the French population. This study aimed to translate and val...

Background and Aims: Temporal summation (TS) and conditioned pain modulation (CPM) are two mechanisms often evaluated to assess excitatory and inhibitory pain mechanisms. Despite all the studies conducted in recent years, current data remains insufficient to draw conclusions about potential differences between men and women and the impact of age, a...

Temporal summation (TS) refers to progressive increase in pain perception during a repetitive/continuous painful stimulation reflecting excitatory pain modulation mechanisms (1). Conditioned pain modulation (CPM) refers to the phenomenon wherein a noxious stimulation results in widespread hypoalgesia (2). However, a question remains unanswered: wha...

Kinesiophobia is associated with pain intensity in people suffering from chronic pain. The number of publications highlighting this relationship has increased significantly in recent years, emphasizing the importance of investigating and synthesizing research evidence on this topic. The purpose of this scoping review was to answer the following que...

Temporal summation of pain (TSP) and conditioned pain modulation (CPM) can be measured using a thermode and a cold pressor test (CPT). Unfortunately, these tools are complex, expensive, and are ill-suited for routine clinical assessments. Building on the results from an exploratory study that attempted to use transcutaneous electrical nerve stimula...

Purpose Quantitative sensory testing (QST) is a standardized method to assess somatosensory function. The collection of qualitative information, during the QST procedure, could be an interesting way to facilitate the characterization of altered sensory perception and the identification of different pain phenotypes. The aims of this study were 1) to...

This systematic review aimed to synthesize the existing evidence of extended reality (XR) on pain and motor function outcomes in patients with back pain. Following the Cochrane guidelines, relevant articles of any language were selected by two independent reviewers from CINAHL, Cochrane, Embase, Medline and Web of Knowledge databases. Of 2,050 uniq...

Objectives: Tonic spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is currently used to treat neuropathic pain. With this type of stimulation, an implantable pulse generator generates electrical paresthesias in the affected area through one or more epidural leads. The goal of this study was to evaluate the impact of tonic SCS on the sensory perception of chronic pai...

Immersive virtual reality has recently developed into a readily available system that allows for full-body tracking. Can this affordable system be used for component tracking to advance or replace expensive kinematic systems for motion analysis in the clinic? The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy of position and orientation measures from...

Objectives Even if spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is widely used and effective in treating intractable chronic neuropathic pain conditions, little is known about its possible impacts on sensory perception. Quantitative sensory testing (QST) is a useful tool to assess this issue. The aim of this study was to review the impact of tonic SCS on somatose...

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This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to determine the prognostic value of S-100β protein to identify patients with post-concussion symptoms following a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). A search strategy was submitted to seven databases from their inception to October 2016. Individual patient data were requested. Cohort studies evaluati...

Introduction: Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is a major cause of morbidity but there are no validated tools to help clinicians predict post-concussion symptoms. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to determine the prognostic value of S-100B protein to predict post-concussion symptoms following a mTBI in adults. Methods: The protocol...

Exercise-induced cough (EIC) is frequently reported by winter athletes, but this symptom is not always associated with exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB). The aims of this study were to determine if EIC can be inhibited or reduced with the inhalation of ipratropium, and if EIC in winter athletes is associated with EIB. On 2 visits, 24 cross...

Background Asthma is a complex disease characterized by hyperresponsiveness, obstruction and inflammation of the airways. To date, several studies using different approaches as candidate genes approach, genome wide association studies, linkage analysis and genomic expression leaded to the identification of over 300 genes involved in asthma pathophy...

Table: S1 Acrobat reader (.pdf) http://get.adobe.com/fr/reader/. Association before correction with asthma related phenotypes. This table lists all the associations before correction in the 85 studied genes for the three studied phenotypes, which are asthma, atopy and atopic asthma. The table also contains the number of tested SNPs, alleles and fre...