We have read the letter by Majlesi and Unalan expressing their concerns and contributions to our previously published article on chronic myofascial pain. As they mentioned, it was the first published paper aimed to investigate the effects of high power pain threshold ultrasound technique in the treatment of chronic myofascial pain patients. We aimed to detect whether this technique would be as ...

Objective: This study probes the clinical effectiveness and safety of a therapy of myofascial pain syndrome making use of both trigger point of myofascial pain and Baihui acupoint using clinical epidemiology, clinical research methodology and mathematical statistics analysis to further standardize its clinical effect for a better social benefit. Methods: We divided 150 patients with myofascial ...

Persistent myalgia following whiplash is commonly considered the result of poor psychosocial status, illness behavior, or failing coping skills. However, there is much evidence that persistent myalgia may be due to neurophysiologic mechanisms involving peripheral and central sensitization. Myofascial trigger points may play a crucial role in maintaining sensitization. Recent research suggests t...

PURPOSE To investigate the therapeutic effectiveness of ultrasound (US)-guided trigger point injection for myofascial trigger points (MTrPs) in the internal rotator muscles of the shoulder in post-mastectomy patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS This pilot study was a non-controlled, prospective, clinical trial. Nineteen post-mastectomy patients with a diagnosis of at least one active MTrP in the s...

Dry needling is a common treatment technique in orthopedic manual physical therapy. Although various dry needling approaches exist, the more common and best supported approach targets myofascial trigger points. This article aims to place trigger point dry needling within the context of pain sciences. From a pain science perspective, trigger points are constant sources of peripheral nociceptive ...