myofascial trigger point

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Internal medicine A self-sustaining hyperirritative focus that may occur in any skeletal muscle after strain produced by acute or chronic overload; MTPs produce a referred pain pattern characteristic for that individual muscle; each pattern becomes part of a single myofascial pain syndrome. See Myofascial pain syndrome.

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