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Effects of Dry Needling on Active Myofascial Trigger Points and Pain Intensity in Tension-Type Headache: A Randomized Controlled Study. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Pers Med
Monti-Ballano S   +7 more
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Myofascial Trigger Points in Early Life

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2007
To determine whether latent myofascial trigger points (MTPs) can be identified in healthy infants and in healthy adult subjects.Blind comparison.Ambulatory.A convenience sample of 60 healthy adults and 60 infants (age range, 0-12mo).Not applicable.An algometer was used to measure the pressure pain threshold (PPT) on 3 different sites, including a ...
Ta-Shen Kuan   +2 more
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Introduction to Myofascial Trigger Points in Dogs

Topics in Companion Animal Medicine, 2014
In dogs, muscles make up 44%-57% of total body weight and can serve as source of both pain and dysfunction when myofascial trigger points are present. However, rarely is muscle mentioned as a generator of pain in dogs, and even less mentioned is muscle dysfunction.
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Myofascial Trigger Points

Anesthesiology Clinics, 2007
Painful conditions of the musculoskeletal system, including myofascial pain syndrome, constitute some of the most important chronic problems encountered in a clinical practice. A myofascial trigger points is a hyperirritable spot, usually within a taut band of skeletal muscle, which is painful on compression and can give rise to characteristic referred
Elizabeth Demers, Lavelle   +2 more
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Latent Myofascial Trigger Points

Current Pain and Headache Reports, 2011
A latent myofascial trigger point (MTP) is defined as a focus of hyperirritability in a muscle taut band that is clinically associated with local twitch response and tenderness and/or referred pain upon manual examination. Current evidence suggests that the temporal profile of the spontaneous electrical activity at an MTP is similar to focal muscle ...
Ge, Hong-You, Arendt-Nielsen, Lars
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