History of Microneurography
The first successful recording of neural impulses from human peripheral nerves was by Hensel and Boman in 1960. They used a glass microelectrode to record single unit afferent discharges from peripheral nerves of human subjects. In 1967, two different Swedish groups independently reported a much less invasive recording techniques of human neural discharges. Both groups used metal microelectrodes that punctured the skin without anesthesia into the peripheral nerves in healthy human subjects. Knutsson and Widén used a platinum–iridium microelectrode, while Hagbarth and Vallbo introduced the method of human percutaneous microneurography with solid tungsten electrodes. The method used by Hagbarth and Vallbo has become widely used, and is currently called microneurography.
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