High prevalence of shoulder girdle muscles with myofascial trigger points in patients with shoulder pain
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High prevalence of shoulder girdle muscles with myofascial trigger points in patients with shoulder pain
BACKGROUND Shoulder pain is reported to be highly prevalent and tends to be recurrent or persistent despite medical treatment. The pathophysiological mechanisms of shoulder pain are poorly understood. Furthermore, there is little evidence supporting the effectiveness of current treatment protocols. Although myofascial trigger points (MTrPs) are rarely mentioned in relation to shoulder pain, the...
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Results subsection. I think the wording of the last sentence in the results section, though perhaps technically accurate English wording, could be misleading to the casual reader who might not read the article in depth. I think the authors should either term the correlation of number of muscles with active trigger points to DASH score as a “low-moderate” correlation, or preferably explicitly me...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1471-2474
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-12-139