myofascial syndrome

my·o·fas·ci·al syn·drome

irritation of the muscles and fascia of the back and neck causing acute and chronic pain not associated with any neurologic or bony evidence of disease; presumed to arise primarily from poorly understood changes in the muscle and fascia themselves.

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myofascial pain syndrome

A chronic, nonprogressive, nondegenerative and non-inflammatory musculoskeletal pain syndrome, which is characterised by local or referred pain evoked at multiple trigger points and accompanied by stiffness, weakness, “knot formation”, and decreased range of motion in precise, specific patterns.

Clinical findings
Generalised pain—head, neck, chest, joints, pelvis, back, sciatica.

Management
Three-step analgesic ladder: injection with local anaesthetics, steroids, anti-inflammatories.

Mechanism
Possibly autonomic dysfunction.

myofascial syndrome

Neurology A painful condition characterized by local or referred pain evoked at multiple trigger points, accompanied by pain, stiffness, weakness, ↓ ROM Clinical Pain everywhere–head, neck, chest, joints, pelvis, back, sciatica Management 3-step drug ladder

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Skootsky SA et al25 found that majority of patients who got admitted to a comprehensive pain clinic had a primary organic diagnosis of myofascial syndrome. [25] Among 61 consecutive consultation or followup, patients in an Internal Medicine Group practice 10% of all patients and 31% of those presenting with a pain complaint had myofascial trigger points identified as being primarily responsible for their symptoms.

A study on the aetiological profile of pain around shoulder among patients attending physical medicine and rehabilitation department of a tertiary care centre

The pain thresholds (kg/[cm.sup.2]) of healthy women (2.6 [+ or -] 0.2) were significantly higher than those of women with endometriosis (1.0 [+ or -] 0.1, P<0.0001) or myofascial syndrome (1.9 [+ or -] 0.2, P = 0.007).

Reduction of blood nitric oxide levels is associated with clinical improvement of the chronic pelvic pain related to endometriosis

Nerve lesion leads to changes in muscle function, resulting in muscle imbalances with deformity of soft tissues and joints (2-6) that can contribute to the development of myofascial syndrome. This condition has some characteristics that can be similar to neuropathic pain such a regional burning pain complaint, paraesthesia in the typical trigger point distribution, exquisite tenderness in taut band, a local twitch response and a restricted range of motion.

Pain in leprosy patients: shall we always consider as a neural damage?

Myofascial syndrome, how pain develops and re-education are examined in this article.

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"This was essentially a myofascial syndrome with perhaps some component of postoperative pain," he said.

Botox relieved woman's postop myofascial pain. (After Radical Mastectomy)

Pressure on these nodules produces the sclerotomal pain referral patterns that are also seen with myofascial syndromes, and which often confuse clinicians into thinking that the problem is nerve root compensation.[7] Recently Swezey[8] reported on his case series of 126 patients in a private rheumatology practice.