Evaluation of the Efficacy of Somatosensory Rehabilitation of Pain by Vibrotactile Stimulation on Static Mechanical Allodynia

Exclusion Criteria

• •1. Patient with neuralgia (spontaneous pain) with or without allodynia;
• •2. Patient not able to participate actively to the rehabilitation exercises for physical reason, cognitive reason (ability to understand instructions) or behavioural reason (e.g. addiction...);
• •3. Patient with complex regional pain syndrome (type I);
• •4. Patients for whom cares cannot avoid any touch with allodynia area;
• •5. Patient previously treated by a transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS);
• •6. Prior treatment by somatosensory rehabilitation;
• •7. Duration of stay in the medical center \< 11 weeks;
• •8. Patient with cognitive disorder;
• •9. Allodynia area of the patient presenting with conditions not recommended for vibrotactile stimulation: wound, unhealed nerve suture, recent skin transplantation, fragile organ such as eye.