Trigger points in medical practice - current therapeutic directions

Abstract Recent scientific evidence suggests that one of the causes myofascial pain syndromes responsible for occurrence chronic headaches, among other things, may be increased or impaired with trigger point therapy. This paper presents results a non-systematic literature review on The analysis shows clear increase in interest invasive treatment techniques. Invasive therapy consists primarily use injections and dry needling. Injections anesthetics botulinum toxin are methods that, addition to their possible therapeutic effect, carry side effects. In contrast, needling does not have fully scientifically-proven effect. data also indicates aforementioned method limited clinical performed did demonstrate significant advantage techniques over typical non-invasive It is therefore necessary design randomized multi-center trials definitively verify efficacy these tension-type point-dependent pain.