Myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) is defined as pain that originates from myofascial trigger points in skeletal muscle. It is prevalent in regional musculoskeletal pain syndromes, either alone or in combination with other pain generators. The appropriate evaluation and management of myofascial pain is an important part of musculoskeletal rehabilitation, and regional axial and limb pain syndromes. ...

Objectives: Myofascial pain syndrome is a disorder characterized by hypersensitive sites called trigger points at one or more muscles and/or connective tissue, leading to pain, muscle spasm, sensitivity, rigor, limitation of movement, weakness, and rarely, autonomic dysfunction. Various treatment methods have been used in the treatment of myofascial pain syndrome. Among these, stretch and spray...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate the remote effect of acupuncture (AcP) on the pain intensity and the irritability of the myofascial trigger point in the upper trapezius muscle. DESIGN Forty-five patients were equally divided into three groups: patients in the placebo control group received sham AcP, those in the simple needling group were treated using simple needling, and those in ...

Wildfire evacuation trigger points are agreed-upon prominent geographic features (e.g., ridges, rivers, and roads) used in wildfire evacuation practices, and when a fire crosses these features, an evacuation is recommended for the communities or firefighter crew in the path of the fire (Cook, 2003; Cova et al., 2005). Spatial modeling of wildfire evacuation triggers has used fire-spread modelin...

BACKGROUND Patients with symptomatic Gaucher's disease sometimes have non-specific symptoms (such as general malaise with widespread musculoskeletal pains) that respond poorly to enzyme replacement treatment. These may indicate fibromyalgia syndrome; if so, other therapeutic options might be more appropriate. AIM To identify patients with Gaucher's disease for whom fibromyalgia-specific thera...

Editor – All those who employ acupuncture for the relief of pain suffered by patients with fibromyalgia must I am sure be very grateful to Thomas Lundeberg & Irene Lund for their recently published, thought provoking paper: Are reviews based on sham acupuncture procedures in fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS ) valid? For it has been very clear to many of us for some time now that, because of marked ce...