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Myofascial Pain

·        A painful musculoskeletal condition characterized by the development of trigger points.

·    Trigger points are locally tender areas in muscle or fascia due to a number of causes.  Fascia surrounds the muscles, bones, nerves, vessels, and organs, hence myofascial.   Malfunction of the fascial system results in abnormal pressure on nerves, muscles, bones, or organs.

o    Associated with a taut band/ropey thickening of the muscle tissue

o    Painful at the site and also may cause referred pain

·   Causes of trigger points

• Injury to intervertebral discs

• Fatigue

• Repetitive motions

• Disease processes

• Lack of activity

• Nutritional deficiencies

• Hormonal changes

• Stress

·   Treatment of Myofascial Pain

• Myofascial release

• Massage

• Heat and Cold therapies

• Stretching

• Trigger point injections

• Physical therapy

• Chiropractic manipulation

• Exercise

• Improvement of nutrition

• Adequate rest

• Stress reduction

• Medications

• Smoking cessation (maximizes healing potential)

·        For More information:

• American Chronic Pain Association

• 1-916-632-0922

• www.theacpa.org

o    Fibromyalgia (FMS) & Chronic Myofascial Pain (CMP) with Devin Starlanyl

• www.sover.net/~devstar/index.htm