Muscle Pain: Diagnosis and TreatmentSiegfried Mense, Robert D. Gerwin This edition of the companion volumes Muscle Pain: Understanding the Mech- isms and Muscle Pain: Diagnosis and Treatment is essential reading for those interested in clinical approaches to acute and chronic pain conditions involving muscle tissues and in the mechanisms underlying these conditions. The volumes cover a very important topic in pain medicine, since muscle pain is very common and can often be dif?cult to diagnose and treat effectively. Furthermore, chronic pain involving muscle and other components of the musculoskeletal system increases with age, such that it is a common complaint of those of us who are middle-aged or older. Indeed, as changing population demographics in “west- nized” countries result in higher proportions of the population living longer and being middle-aged and elderly, chronic muscle pain will likely become even more of a health problem. In the case of acute muscle pain, this can often be very intense, and in the short term can limit or modify the use of components of the musculoskeletal system associated with the sensitive muscle. Chronic muscle pain can also be intense, as well as unpleasant and disabling, and it is in many cases the over-riding symptom of most musculoskeletal disorders that are associated with long-term deleterious changes in musculoskeletal function. |
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abdominal abnormal action potentials active trigger point acute afferent Arendt-Nielsen Arthritis Rheum associated brain cause central sensitization chronic LBP chronic pain clinical contraction knot controls cortex criteria decreased dermatomyositis diagnosis disease dorsal horn dry needling dysfunction effect endplate factors fibromyalgia patients fibromyalgia syndrome function Gerwin Graven-Nielsen headache hyperalgesia impact inclusion body myositis increased inhibition injection input involved joint lesion levels low back pain Masticatory Muscle mechanisms membrane Mense MTrPs muscle activity muscle fibers muscle pain musculoskeletal pain myalgia myofascial pain syndrome myofascial trigger points neck pain nerve neurons nociceptive nociceptors normal Oral palpation patients with chronic patients with fibromyalgia peripheral physical polymyositis prevalence psychological receptor referred pain region Rehabil response Rheumatol risk sarcomere sensory serotonin skeletal muscle spinal cord Sted stimulation stress symptoms taut band temporomandibular disorders tenderness tendon therapy tissue trapezius muscle treatment trigger point TrPs vitamin vitamin D whiplash injury