Public Health and Health Professions
Alappattu Lab (Center for Pain Rehabilitation Research)
Led by Meryl Alappattu · Physical Therapy
What we study
The Center studies pain perception and rehabilitation, using methods like neurophysiological, physiological, and clinical measures. Research involves human participants, from lab studies to clinical trials.
What working here is like
- Clinical
- Human participants
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Mechanistic-Based Treatment of Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome
Investigating treatments for bladder pain syndrome using clinical and physiological methods.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Chronic Overlapping Pain and Central Sensitization in Chronic Pelvic Pain: Do Positive and Negative Affect Play a Role?
2026 · Pain Research and Management
Explores how emotions influence pain sensitivity and central nervous system changes in pelvic pain.
- Association between changes in conditioned pain modulation efficiency and pain sensitivity: a randomized controlled trial
2026 · Frontiers in Pain Research
Tests if changes in pain control training affect pain sensitivity in healthy adults.
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- Foundational Principles of Treatment
2025 · Routledge eBooks
Explains how physical therapists treat injuries or pain using exercise and short-term manual therapy.
- Urinary Incontinence Self-Management in Rural Midlife Women: A Mixed Methods Study
2025 · Western Journal of Nursing Research
Studies how rural midlife women manage urinary incontinence and what affects their self-management.
- Impact of repeated exposure to CPM on CPM efficiency and pain sensitivity in healthy adults: a randomized controlled trial
2025 · Frontiers in Pain Research
Investigates whether repeated pain control training improves pain sensitivity in healthy adults.
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How to reach out
Meryl Alappattu hasn't set up this page yet. Their UF Scholars profile lists their publications.