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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, William, Lavelle, Howard S, Smith   +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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Myofascial Pain Syndromes–Trigger Points

Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain, 2004
Four articles this quarter present major progress in new experimental data. Hou et al. demonstrated in rabbits that motor endplate potentials [spontaneous electrical activity] of trigger spots are partially dependent on increased calcium channel permeability. Delaney et al.
David G. Simons, Jan Dommerholt
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Trigger-Point Massage Therapy

The Physician and Sportsmedicine, 1983
(1983). Trigger-Point Massage Therapy. The Physician and Sportsmedicine: Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 159-162.
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Trigger Point Dry Needling

Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy, 2017
Increasingly, physical therapists in the United States and throughout the world are using dry needling to treat musculoskeletal pain, even though this treatment has been a controversial addition to practice. To better generalize to physical therapy practice the findings about dry needling thus far, the authors of a study published in the March 2017 ...
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Trigger Point–Acupuncture Point Correlations Revisited

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 2003
In 1977, Melzack and colleagues examined the possible correspondence of acupuncture points and trigger points for the treatment of pain. They claimed a 71% correspondence between these two classes of points. Their findings have influenced many researchers and practitioners but have not been examined since 1977. The current study explores the claim of a
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Trigger Point Management.

American family physician, 2023
Trigger points producing myofascial pain syndromes are common in primary care. Located within skeletal muscle, trigger points are taut, band-like nodules capable of producing pain and disability. Some evidence from clinical trials supports massage, physical therapy, and osteopathic manual medicine as first-line less invasive treatment strategies ...
Benjamin, Shipton, Sunkesula, Sagar, Jennifer K, Mall   +2 more
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Trigger Point Injections

2017
A trigger point is a hyperirritable spot in the muscle associated with a hypersensitive palpable nodule in a taut band which is painful on compression. Myofascial trigger points are a component of a larger disorder known as myofascial pain syndrome (MPS).
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Trigger point therapy.

Problems in veterinary medicine, 1992
Trigger points (TP) are objectively demonstrable foci in muscles. They are painful on compression and trigger pain in a referred area. This area may be the only locus of complaint in humans. In dogs we cannot prove the existence of referred zones of pain.
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Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points

Science, 2022
David I Armstrong Mckay, Arie Staal, Jesse F Abrams   +2 more
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