Pain and the neuromatrix in the brain.

By R. Melzack. Journal of Dental Education, 2001

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Graded motor imagery is effective for long‐standing complex regional pain syndrome: a randomised controlled trial (2004, background): “First, because modern theories of pain in populations similar to CRPS1 (e.g. phantom limb pain) emphasise an intimate relationship between pain and motor output such that movement execution commands may be sufficient to cause pain (Melzack, 1990).”
Habeas Corpus: The Sense of Ownership of One ' s Own Body (2007, background): “Melzack (1990) described a patient who screamed when the examiner squeezed his ‘ alien ’ hand, but who still denied that this hand belonged to him.”
Chronic Pain as an Outcome of Surgery: A Review of Predictive Factors (2000, positive): “central phenomena and explain them using the neuromatrix theory expounded by Melzack.(14,15) That is,”